[其它语言学习]高级英语第三版第一册Lesson 5 the libido for the ugly.pptVIP

Lesson 5 The Libido for the UglyHenry L. Mencken Additional background information About the author ? He was a prolific writer of his day. ?--- - his prose is as clear as an azure sky --- --his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was the first American to be widely read as a critic. Though, earlier, James Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe had been better endowed with critical intelligence, their proficiency in other literary forms had obscured to some degree their skills as critics. Mencken was born in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 12, 1880, and privately educated