美国文学考试整理精选.doc

人物——头衔作品 Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman writer Benjamin Franklin ﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography, the first self-made American) Washington Irving ( Father of American literature) Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism) Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolution) Ezra Pound (the founder of imagism movement) T.S. Eliot (Nobel Prize winner) F. Scott Fitzgerald (spokesman of Jazz Age) Ernest Hemingway (Nobel Prize winner, typical writer of lost generation) William Faulkner (Nobel Prize winner) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant Thomas Paine :Common sense Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence Washington Irving ：The Sketch Book , “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of sleepy Hollow” James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self Reliance , The Poet, The American scholar Henry David Thoreau :Walden Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Song of myself ,O Captain, My Captain! Emily Dickinson : I’m Nobody Edgar Allan Poe: :The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville :Moby Dick Henry James(p64): Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady Mark Twain(p75) :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain ) Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage. Theodore Dreiser :Sister Carrie An American Tragedy The Trilogy of Desire Frank Norris: The Octopus Jack London: The Call of the Wild Ezra Pound: The cantos In a Station of the Metro T.S. Eliot :The Waste Land (William said that the publish of The Waste Land like an atom, destroy our world.) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“ Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar Robert Frost: The road not taken Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradi