Part I. The Literature of Colonial America
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1. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was American Puritanism
11. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, the were the Puritan values that dominated much of the early American writing.
Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution
3. 建议书范文Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called the General Magazine.
4. Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography
9. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau
10. Philip Freneau's famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned experience.
11. Philip Freneau was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "
12. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry."
14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason and Revolution.
Part III. The Literature of Romanticism
1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.
2. In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.
3. In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of th
e English Language.
4. The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of Slavery
5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club.
6. The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord home.
7. Washington Irving was regarded as the first great pro stylist of American romanticism.
8. At nineteen, Washington Irving published in his brother's newspaper, his "Jonathan Old style" satires of New York life.
9. 环保手抄报图片In Washington Irving's work The Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
10. In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and act
or, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch.
11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving's work named The Sketch Book.
12. Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.
公司商标注册13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled The History of New York.
14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold¬ smith, and the other is Life of Washington.
15. The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper
16. James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.
17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's a romances was The Pilot. The hero of the novel reprents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.
18. The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is有害无利 Natty Bumppo , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking, Deer slayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.
19. To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant ' s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "
20. William Cullen Bryant was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.
21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the Odysy into English blank ver.
22. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Bells is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.
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23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.
24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New England.
25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson's theories, was Henry David Thoreau塑胶球场施工>兔子头饰手工制作
26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at Walden Pond.
27. A superb book entitled Walden came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.
28. From Henry David Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience.
