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2024年3月15日發(作者：楓葉一秋)

American Literature

Age Writer Status Form & Style

Work

（“___"表重要性，“☆”表課本選文)

A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as

Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony

A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country

The General History of Virginia， New—England, and the Summer

Isles

John Smith

（1580 —1631）

the first American writer

The Literature of

Colonial America

（17

th

century)

William Bradford

(1590-1657)

&

John Winthrop

(1588-1649）

John Cotton

（1585—1652）

&

Roger Williams

（1603—1683)

Anne Bradstreet

(1612—1672）

＆

Edward Taylor

（1642-1729)

Benjamin Franklin

Of Plymouth Plantation《普利茅斯墾殖記》（by William Bradford)

The History of New England from 1630 to 1649《新英格蘭歷史：

1630～1649》(by John Winthrop)

A Key into the Language of America （by Roger Williams）

one of the most interesting

of the early poets

//

the best of the Puritan poets

The Tenth Mu Lately Sprung Up in America（by Anne

Bradstreet）

The Literature of

Reason and Revolution

(18

th

century）

本杰明·富蘭克林

(1706-1790）

Thomas Paine

托馬斯·潘恩

☆The Autobiography《富蘭克林自傳》

Poor Richard’s Almanac《窮理查年鑒》

☆The American Crisis《美國危機》

Common Sen《常識》

1

（1737—1809）

Thomas Jefferson

托馬斯·杰斐遜

(1743-1826）

Philip Freneau

菲利普·弗倫諾

（1752—1832)

Rights of Men《人權論》

The Age of Reason《理性時代》

☆The Declaration of Independence《獨立宣言》

poetry；

perhaps the most

The British Prison Ship《英國囚船》

a satirist and a ntimentalist,

outstanding writer of the

☆The Wild Honey Suckle《野生的金銀花》

a humanitarian but also a bitter

post—revolutionary period

☆The Indian Burying Ground《印第安人殯葬地》

polemicist;

“Father of American Poetry”

☆To a Caty—Did

gothic mood

☆The Author's Account of Himlf

☆The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(included in Sketch Book)

Sketch Book 《見聞札記》(the first modern short stories and the

first great American juvenile literature)

A History of New York《紐約外史》

The Spy

The Pilot (the best of his a romances)

WashingtonIrving

華盛頓·歐文

(1783—1859)

The first great pro stylist of

American Romanticism

The Literature of

Romanticism

（19

th

century）

James Feninore

Cooper

詹姆斯·費尼莫爾·庫

柏

(1789-1851）

novel； The Leatherstocking Tales: （“the nearest approach yet to an

He launched two kinds of

American epic”）

immenly popular stories: the

①The Deerslayer

best of his a adventure tales,

②☆The Last of the Mohicans《最后一個莫希干人》

and the frontier saga.

③The Pathfinder

④The Pioneers

⑤The Prairie

poetry;

naturalism

poetry, novel, literary criticism

2

William Cullen Bryant

威廉·卡倫·布萊恩特

(1794—1878）

Edgar Allan Poe

埃德加·愛倫·坡

the first American to gain

the stature of a major poet

☆Thanatopsis《死亡隨想》

☆To a Waterfowl《致水鳥》（perhaps the peak of his works)

☆To Hellen

☆The Raven