AMERICAN ITERATURE.docVIP

AMERICAN LITERATURE Chapter I The Romantic Period The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It started with the publication of(华盛顿，欧文) Washington Irvings The Sketch Book （见闻札记）and ended with （沃尔特，惠特曼）Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass. （叶草集）It is also called the American Renaissance. the nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement（早起清教徒殖民）, the confrontation with t