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考试复习提纲 The Outline of American Literature Puritanism: Edward Taylor Revolution and Reason: Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Freneau Early Romanticism: Irving, Cooper, Bryant Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau Black Romanticism: Allan Poe, Hawthorne, Melville Realism: Poem: Whitman and Dickinson Local Colorism: Mrs. Stowe, Mark Twain Psychological: Henry James Naturalism: O’Henry, Jack London, Dreiser Modernism Imagism: Ezra Pound Lyrical Poet: Robert Frost Jazz Age: Fitzgerald Lost Generation: Hemingway, T.S. Eliot Southern literature: Faulkner II. Blank Filling 1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _Jamestown____, Virginia. 2. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _Egland_. 3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of the early American writing. 4. The best of puritan poets was _Edward Taylor____, whose complete edition of poems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death. 5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _The Autobiography____ 6. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering, was appropriately born into an age of _revolution_____ 7. _Philip Freneau____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 8. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of _Reason_____ and Revolution. 9. _Washington　Irving_____ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 10. In Irving’s work _Stretch Book____ appeared the first modern short stories and the first American juvenile literature. 11. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is _Natty Bumppo____. 12. 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”. 13._William Current Bryant______ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in