美国文学作品整理

,殖民主义时期  The Literature of Colonial Amercia

1, 船长 约翰史密斯 Captain  John Smith first American writer

2, 威廉布拉德福德  William Bradford

《普利茅斯开发历史》  “The History of Plymouth Plantation”

3, 约翰温斯罗普  John Winthrop

《新英格兰历史》    “The History of New England”

4, 罗杰威廉姆斯  Roger Williams

5, 安妮布莱德斯特 Anne Bradstreet

“The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America”

6, 戈登 John Cotton

7, Edward Taylor 泰勒 best puritan poet

 

二,理性和革命时期文学 The Literature of Reason and Revolution

1, 富兰克林  Benjamin Franklin

“The Autobiography Poor Richards Almanac

2, 佩因 Thomas Paine

The American Crisis 《常识》、 《人权、 《理性的时代》

《土地公平》  “Agrarian  Justice”

3, 杰逊 Thomas Jefferson

《独立宣言》 “The Declaration of Independence”

4,福瑞诺  Philip Freneau

The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground

To a Caty-Did

《想象的力量》    “The Power of Fancy”

《夜屋》     “The House of Night”(first romantic note)

《英国囚船》      “The British Prison Ship”

 

三、浪漫主义文学  The Literature of Romanticism

1, 欧文  Washington Irving

(美国文学之父, first great prose stylist, 写自传和历史当娱乐)

《作者自叙》   《睡谷传奇》

《见闻札记》 “Sketch Book”( first book win success of Atlantic, first modern short stories, first great work for teenager )

《纽约外史》   “A History of New York”

《旅行者故事》 “Tales of Traveler

Alhambra    Rip Van Winkle

2, 库  James Fennimore Cooper

海上冒险, 边疆小说

《最后的莫西干人》

《间谍》 “The Spy”

《领航者》 “The Pilot”

《皮袜子故事集》  Leather stocking Tales (The Deer slayer”, “The Pathfinder ,The Pioneers, The Prairie)

3, 布莱恩特  William Cullen Bryant

《死之思考》  Thanatopsis

《致水鸟》    “To a Waterfowl”

4, 坡  Edgar Allan Poe

《致海伦》  “To Helen”

《乌鸦》    “The Raven”

《厄舍古屋的倒塌》  “The Fall of the House of Usher”

《述异集》  “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”

5,艾默生  Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism)

《自然》 “Nature”  《自助》 “Self-Reliance”

《美国学者》  “The American Scholar”

《神学院致辞》 “The Divinity School Address”

6, 梭罗 Henry David Thoreau

《瓦尔登湖》 “Walden”

《论平民的不服从》   “Civil Disobedience”

《小伙子布朗》  “Young Goodman Brown”

7,霍桑 Nathaniel Hawthorne

《红字》   “The Scarlet Letter”

《带有七个尖角阁的房子》 The House of the Seven Gable

《福谷传奇》   Blithedale Romance”

《古宅青苔》   “Mosses from an Old Manse”

8,麦尔维尔 Herman Melville

Moby Dick (a shredded Shakespearean play)

Typee  Omoo Bedburn White-Jacket Mardi

9, 朗费罗 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

《人生礼赞》  “A Psalm of Life”

《奴隶的梦》  “The Slaves Dream”

《逝去的青春》  “My Lost Youth”

《海华沙》   “Hiawatha”

 

四、现实主义文学 The Literature of Realism

Bert Harte the first American writer of local color

1.惠特曼  Walt Whitman free verse

Song of Myself, I Sit and Look Out

《草叶集》: American first genuine epic poem

2.狄金森 Emily Dickinson

I tasted a liquor never brewed        I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

A Bird came down the Walk          I died for Beauty, but was scarce

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died----

Because I could not stop for Death

3,哈丽雅特比彻斯托   Harriet Beccher Stowe

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》

《德雷德,阴暗大沼地的故事书

“Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”

4,马克吐温    Mark Twain

《汤姆索亚历险记》

“Innocent Abroad”  Roughing It      The Gilded Age

Life on the Mississippi      “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5, 欧亨利  OHenry----美国现代短篇小说之父

美国生活的幽默百科全书

The Cop and the Anthem     The Four Million

The Gift of Magi            Martin Eden

6,亨利詹姆    Henry James --- 心理写实主义/国际题材

The Portrait of a Lady    Daisy Miller:第一次国际荣誉

《鸽翼》   《大使》     《金碗》

7,杰克伦敦    Jack London

The Sea Wolf     Martin Eden”: autobiography

The Call of the Wild

8,德     Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie        Jennie Gerhardt

The Financier       The Titan

The Stoic”: trilogy of desire     Genius

An American Tragedy”: the most successful one

 

五,二十一世纪文学  Twentieth Century Literature

1, 庞德 Ezra Pound---Imagism

Salutation the Second

《处女无暇》 “A Virginal”   《合同》 “A Pact”

《地铁站台》 “In a Station of the Metro

The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

2,罗宾逊  Edwin Arlington Robinson

The House on the Hill    Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

3,弗罗斯特    Robert Frost----20世纪美国民族诗人

After Apple Picking    The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Departmental    Design    The Most of It

A Boys Will

4,桑德堡      Carl Sandburg

Chicago   The Harbor   The Fog    Cool Tombs

Flash Crimson     The People, Yes

5, 史蒂文斯   Wallace Stevens

《彼得昆士弹琴》    Peter Quince at the Clavier

《坛子的轶事》      Anecdote of the Jar

《冰淇淋的皇帝》    The Emperor of Ice-Cream

《风琴》             Harmonium

6, 艾略特    Thomas Stearns Eliot

The Love Song of J-Alfred Prufrock

Preludes      Journey of the Magi

The Hollow ManA Penny for the Old Guy

The Wasted Landthe most significant poem in 20 century

The Hollow Men     Four Quartets

7,司各特   FScott Fitzgerald 爵士时代的代言人

The Great Gatsby        The Side of Paradise

Tales of the Jazz Age      Tender Is the Night

8,海明威    Ernest Hemingway

Farewell to Arms     The Sun Also Rise

For Whom the Bell Tolls         Death in the Afternoon

The Old Man and the Sea

9, John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men            The Grapes of Wrath

10,福克纳    William Faulkner: 意识流

《圣殿》  Sanctuary

The Sound and the Fury

Snopes Family

A Rose for Emily