美国文学作家及其作品

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The literature of Reason and Revolution
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography
Thomas Paine: The American Crisis
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
Philip Freneau: “Father of American Poetry”
The Literature of Romanticism
Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
William Cullen Bryant: “Thanatopsis”, “To a Waterfowl”
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leather-Stocking Tales
Transcendentalists:
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau:Walden
High Romantics:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “A Psalm of Life”, “The Slave’s Dream”
Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”, “The Raven”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly buzz-When I died”
Realism:
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens): The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
O. Henry: “The Cop and the Anthem”, “The gift of the Magi”
Henry James: The Portrait of A Lady
Jack London: Martin Eden
Naturalism:
Stephan Crane: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie; The Genius; An American Tragedy
Imagism:
Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”
Poets of the early 20th century:
Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”;“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Carl Sandburg: “Fog”, “Chicago”
Edwin Arlington Robinson: “Richard Cory”, “Miniver Cheevy”
Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”
Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of River”
Thomas Stearns Eliot:Waste Land
Modernism (--1945):
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner:The Sound and the Fury, A Rose for Emily
Post-M odernism (1950’s--):
Saul Bellow(1976 Nobel Prize): Dangling Man; Herzog; Humboldt’s Gift; Toni Morrison (1993 Nobel Prize) : The Bluest Eyes; Song of Solomon; Joseph Heller:Catch-22;Thomas Pynchon: V;
Allen Ginsberg: Howl;
Sylvia Plath:“Lady Lazarus”; “Daddy”;
American Drama:
Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller:Death of a Salesman
Edward Albee: The American Dream。