全套美国文学精心整理的各个时期作家作品简介Philip Freneau.ppt

Lecture 4 Philip Freneau Content Philip Freneau Biographical Introduction Works of Philip Freneau Appreciating “The Wild Honey Suckle” Appreciating “The Indian Burying Ground” Evaluation of Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1832) Poet “Father of American Poetry” Political journalist Biographical Introduction Born in New York on January 2, 1752, of French Huguenot and Scottish stock At 16, entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) Attended the War of Independence, and was captured by the British army in 1780 Editor and contributor of The Freemans Journal (Philadelphia) from 1781 to 1784 After war, flung himself into the controversies between the Jeffersonian Democrats and Hamilton’s Federalists supported Jeffersonian Democrats advocating the essence of “Jeffersonian democracy” decentralization of government, equality for the masses, etc. After 50 years old, lived in poverty and died in a blizzard Works of Philip Freneau Revolutionary Poems （“The Poet of the Revolution”） 1772 The Rising Glory of America 1781 The British Prison Ship 1781 To the Memory of the Brave Americans 1774 Pictures of Columbus Nature lyrics （Romantic Poet) 1776 The Beauties of Santa Cruz 1786 The Wild Honey Suckle 1776 The House of Night 1788 The Indian Burying Ground To a Caty-Did Lyric Any fairly short poem consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling. Many lyric speakers are represented as musing in solitude The “I” in the poem need not to be the poet who wrote it The Wild Honey Suckle published in Poems (1786) one of Freneau’s best nature poems unread in the time when he was living anticipates the nineteenth-century romantic use of simple nature imagery The Wild Honey Suckle Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No rovin