美国文学史及选读2复习笔记

PartⅣThe Literature Of Realism现实主义文学
1.美国国内战争Civil War 1861-1865.美国现实主义文学：他们寻找描写美国人真实生活的方法，他们声称平凡的、就近的事件同重大的、遥运的事件一样都是艺术创作的源泉they sought to portray American life as it really was,, insisting that the ordinary and local were as suitable for artistic portrayal as the magnificent and the remote.
2.现实主义一词来源于法语realisme, 她是一种文学原则，她强调描写平凡的生活，强调其“真实性和现实性”。

Realism had originated in France as realisme, a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life. “现实主义要求创作素材绝对真实，即不能夸张，也不能缩小”,William Dean Howells(豪厄斯) defined realism as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”.他反对那些表现失意和绝望类苍白无力的小说，他强调现实主义作品要发掘出生活中微笑的一方面，因为美国人都坚信自己的国家是一个充满希望，什么奇迹都有可能发生的一个国家，作为文学也应该把这些特征表现出来he spoke out against the writing of a bleak fiction of failure and despair. He called for the treatment of the “Smiling aspects of life”as being the more “American”, insisting that American was truly a land of hope and of possibility that should be reflected in its literature.
3.美国现实主义文学总体说来对生活的表面现象进行了乐观的处理，这是其局限，然而最伟大的现实伟大的现实主义大师亨利·詹姆斯、马克·吐温则摆脱了对十九世纪美国进行肤浅描写的局限，詹姆斯对他作品中的人物个性心理进行了深度探讨，他运用深厚的和复杂的写作方式对复杂的个人经历进行了揣摩。

马克·吐温打破了乡土小说的狭窄局限，前所未有地描述了广阔的美国生活the bulk of America’s literary realism was limited to optimistic treatment of the surface of life. Yet the greatest of America’s realists, Henry James and Mark Twain, moved well beyond a superficial portrayal of nineteenth-century America. James probed deeply into the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience. Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.
4.美国新的现实主义即自然主义大师们不再崇尚过去粉饰太平的写作方法，他们设法尽力客观，真实地展现出受环境与出身局限的下层人民和各种经济阶层人物的真正生活，他们强调世界的非道德性，他们认为，人们并没有意志的自由，他们的生活状况往往受到了生活的环境与自己的出身所局限；他们还认宗教上的“真理”是虚幻的，人类世俗的现实生活是痛苦的，死亡以后，一切又烟消云散了naturalism, a new and harsher realism. America’s literary naturalists dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classed who were dominated by their environment and heredity, the naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment, that religious “truths”were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death.
一、Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼1819-1892
1.美国文学史上极其重要的、具有创新精神的作家之一，他的《草叶集》中系列诗歌是美国文学史上第一部真正的史诗one of the great innovators in American literature. In the cluster of poems he called “Leaves of Grass” he gave America its first genuine epic poem.他所创造的这种诗体叫做自由诗，在这种诗歌中，没有固定的节拍，也没有有规律的韵脚，惠特曼认为传统的格律诗不适合表达民主之声the poetic style he devised is now called free verse-that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. Whitman thought that the voice of democracy should not be haltered by traditional forms of verse.
2.1855年出版《草叶集》第一部，其中的大部分作品表达的主题是人类与大自然。

有一部分诗歌描写的是令作者痴迷的纽约，少量诗歌还对内战进行了描写，在诗歌中，惠特曼把各种具有平民思想的普通人，社会下层的不同个体的理念有机地结合了起来most of the poems in “Leaves of Grass” are about man and nature. However, a small number of very good poems deal with New York, the city that fascinated Whitman, and with the Civil War. In his poetry, Whitman combined the ideal of the democratic common man and that of the rugged individual. 他给诗人重新进行了定义，他认为诗人是一个英雄，是一个救世主，还是先知，诗人通过对真理的表达来引导大众in his poetry, Whiman combined the ideal of the democratic common man and that of the rugged individual. He envisioned the poet as a hero, a savior and a prophet, one who leads the community by his expressions of the truth.
3.教材作品：《自己之歌》：”Song of Myself”《我坐在这儿眺望着》：”I sit and Look Out”
《敲呀！敲呀！鼓啊！》：”Drum-Taps Beat! Beat! Drums”
二、Emily Dickinson爱米丽·狄金森1830-1886
1.她的诗歌古怪、简洁，她对做任何大众或流行诗人的概念保持惊人冷漠，她往往是通过一件具体的家庭小事，和一种闲适的生活来阐明事理，并把这些描写成为令人痴迷的诗歌she wrote her whimsical, darting verse with sublime indifference to any notion of being a democratic or popular poet. Her work illustrated the fact that one could take a single household and an inactive life, and make enchanting poetry out of it.
2.她同姐姐终身未嫁一直住在一起，1862年以后，她过上了完全与世隔绝的生活，从此再也没有离开过自己的家乡，也没有同朋友聚会，狄金森与世隔绝可能是受到一桩不满爱情的影响，但主要可能还是源于她自己独特的个性，源于她自己要同世人隔绝的愿望，她诗歌并没有受到生活局限，相反她诗歌却极富创造性和想象力she and her sister remained at home and did not marry. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing even close friends. Her later retirement from the world, though perhaps affected by an unhappy love affair, seems mainly to have resulted from her own personality, from a desire to separate herself from the world. The range of her poetry suggests not her limited experiences
but the power of her creativity and imagination.
3.她在世时，发表了仅七首诗，爱米丽并没有按当时的标准来修改自己的作品，也无意去出版这些作品Emily, however, refused to revise her poems to fit the standards of others and took no interest in having them published; in fact she had only seven poems published during her lifetime.
4.她的诗歌富有激情，诗歌都很短，很多诗建立在一个简单的意象或象征之上，狄金森在她小小抒情诗歌中却对生活中的大部分重大事件进行了探讨Emily Dickinson’s poetry comes out in bursts. The poems are short, many of them being based on a single image or symbol. But within her little lyrics Miss Dickinson writes about some of the most important things in life.
5.教材作品：《我品味未经酿造的饮料》：”I taste a liquor never brewed”
《我意识到一场葬礼》：”I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain”
《鸟儿沿着小径过来》：“A Bird Came Down the Walk-“
《我为美而死》：”I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce”
《听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声-我死时》：”I Heard a Fly Buzz-when I died-“
《我不能等候死神》：”Because I Could not Stop for Death-“
三、Harriet Beecher Stowe哈丽雅特·比彻·斯托1811-1896
1.她出生名门，父亲莱曼是当地有名的牧师，父亲在家“一手遮天”，非常专横，对待他们兄妹非常严厉，他希望家里的男孩子将来成为传教士，女孩子能够嫁给传教士she was born into a respectable family that was to become famous, her father Lyman was a renowned clergyman. The family was dominated by the father who ruled with the kind of wrathful severity that he imagined were the chief characteristics of the God he worshiped and feared. The boys were expected to become preachers, the girls to marry preachers.
2.1851年6月5日，系列小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的第一集在《民族时代》专栏上开始连载，到1852年4月1日最后一集刊登完成the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “The Man That Was a Thing”, began serially in the National Era on June 5, 1851, and the last installment appeared on April 1, 1852.
3.这部小说被翻译成40多种文字，被全球数百万计的人们广泛阅读，这部小说的成功源于该作品倾注了作者自己对两主人公所受痛苦和压迫的深刻感受，再就是人们为作者要解放这些奴隶的决心所感动Since then has been published in some forty languages and has been read by millions of people around the world. The power of the novel unquestionably comes from the investment of the author’s sense of her own suffering and oppression (as well as her determination to be free) in the characters of Tom and his fellow slave Eliza,, the protagonists of the book’s two main plots.
4.《汤姆叔叔小屋题解》“A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with documented case histories to support what she had portrayed fictionally. 1856年《德雷德，阴暗大沼地的故事》“Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp” attempt to repeat the theme and extend the argument of her masterpiece: that a society resting on slavery could not long survive.
5.教材作品：《汤姆叔叔的小屋》：“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
四、Mark Twain 马克·吐温1835-1910
1.原名Samuel Langhorne Clemens 塞缪尔·朗赫恩·克莱门斯。

1847年父亲去世后开始到一家出版社当学徒工，从1853年开始全国旅行，期间做过印刷排字临时工，结识了船长霍勒斯·比克斯比，从那以后便开始水上生活his formal education ended soon after his father’s death in 1847, when he became a printer’s apprentice. From 1853, he traveled widely, as a journeyman printer, in the eastern states and in the west, he met Horace Bixby, the captain of the boat, and turned to a career on the river.国内战争爆发以后，他离开密西西比河，先后在军队当过志愿者，到内华达州掏过金，他还做过木材投机生意，当过新闻记者he left the Mississippi at the outbreak of the Civil War, and became, in swift succession, and army volunteer, a gold-prospector in Nevada, a timber speculator and a journalist.
2.在弗吉尼亚《企业》杂志任职期间，他开始使用笔名“马克·吐温”，意为口寻，也就是十二尺深while working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, he adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain”, the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms, i.e. twelve feet.
3.1865年，他第一本书《跳蛙》出版”Jumping Frog”;
1869年，《傻子国外旅行记》“Innocents Abroad”;
1872年，《艰苦岁月》“Roughing It”;
1873年，《镀金时代》“The Gilded Age”
1876年，《汤姆·索亚历险记》“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”;
1883年，《密西西比河上的生活》“Life on the Mississippi”;
1884年，《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》”Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”;
1894年，《傻瓜威尔逊》“Pudd head Wilson”;
1900年，《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg”;
1906年，《什么是人？》“What is Man”;
1916年，《神秘来客》“The Mysterious Stranger”
4.晚年悲观与失望，对十九世纪美国社会价值观不能接受，后一直是一个坚定的怀疑论者，有时他通过时事恶毒的评论来疏缓自己的压力，
晚景凄凉，亲人相继离去he pointed towards his uneasy acceptance of the values of nineteenth-century American society, he wrote three works expressing his acute pessimism. From that time until his death, he maintained a bitter skepticism, relieved at times by outraged commentary on world affairs. His last years were saddened by personal bereavement.
5.教材作品：《汤姆·索亚历险记》“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
五、O. Henry 欧·亨利原名威廉·悉尼·波特（笔名欧·亨利）William Sidney Porter.
1.由于人们对他撰写的故事特别感兴趣,《安斯利杂志》的出版人便邀请他到纽约专门写稿he wrote stories for different magazines, and when there came a big demand for his stories, the publishers of “Ainslee’s Magazing” invited him to come to New York.
2.欧·亨利写的故事大部分讲的是纽约穷苦人的生活，也写过其他地方类似人的辛酸生活，他讲述的故事一般很短，情节安排巧妙又引人入胜，故事幽默，有趣，结果往往又出人意料，他的故事中有许多俚语和地方性语言表达，美国以外读者理解这些内容有些困难，这些表达方式，在作者看来是一种本地特色，并且能够很好地同故事中的人物和场景结合起来Many of his stories tell about the lives of poor people in New York, as well as in other places, his works abound in good-natured humor. His stories are usually short, the plots are exceedingly clever and interesting; humor abounds, and the end is always surprising. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions that make them hard to be understood by people outside of America. Such forms of speech are used to give what is called local, to make the stories fit in with the characters and scenes described.
3.欧·亨利认为他自己是一个十分谦虚的人，他很害羞，不喜与人交往，即使是成名以后也是这样His own estimate of himself was always a very modest one and he was shy and retiring in the presence of friends yet his fame.
4.最好小说集《四百万》his best volume” The Four Million”; 最好单部小说：《旧知》、《麦珙的礼物》、《市政报告》、《没讲完的故事》、《月亮女神》、《吝啬爱人》、《装饰过的房间》，his best individual stories “Retrieved Reformation”, “The Gift of the Magi”, “A Municipal Report”, “An Unfinished Story”, “Phoebe”, “A Lickpenny Lover”, “The Furnished Room”.
5.教材作品：《警察与赞美诗》：”The Cop and the Anthem”
六、Henry James亨利·詹姆斯1843-1916
1.他大部分教育是在家里完成的，全家在欧洲的频繁旅行是他接受教育的另一个重要源泉he received the major part of his education at home, his family’s travels in Europe were another source of education for Henry.
2.1871年，第一部小说《观察和守护》“Watch and Ward”;
1875年《罗德里克·赫德森》”Roderick Hudson”;
1877年《美国人》讲述的是一个国际性的话题，书中他认为美国人同丰富多彩的欧洲生活相比，显得没底蕴“The American”with its “international” theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life
1878年《达西·密勒》有人评论该作品是“对美国姑娘的嘲弄”，但正是这部作品让他首次获得了国际声誉”Daisy Miller”, which one American critic described as “an outrage to American girlhood” but which brought James his first international fame.
1881年《一个贵妇人的画像》是其早期作品中最好的一部“The Portrait of a Lady” the finest example of James’s early work.
3.他第二个创作时期作品有：
1886年《波士顿人》“The Bostonians”
1886年《卡萨玛西玛公主》“The Princess Casamassima”;
1890年《悲惨的缪斯》“The Tragic Muse”
4.第三阶段作品有：
1902年《鸽翼》“The Wings of the Dove”;
1903年《大使》”The Ambassadors”
1904年《金碗》”The Golden Bowl”
这时他写法日趋成熟和灵活，许多评论家声称为他的“主要阶段”exemplify the mature and formidable style of a third literary period, which critics have come to praise as “The Major Phase”.
5.同豪厄斯不一样，他的影响不在当时，而是在他去世后接下来的一段时间里，他因对自己祖国的批语，人物情感的塑造较为封闭狭小，人物的社会范围也较为有限而遭到了当时评论家的功击，他最后阶段创作的作品晦涩难懂，风格也不大气，遭到了当时人们的嘲讽，其实只是对读者提出了更高的要求，只有有了同步的心灵，才能感应他作品中的微妙之处，要求读者所受教育同他一样，要求读者同作者一样不慌不忙，慢慢咀嚼Unlike Howells Jame s’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed. He had been attacked for criticizing his native land and for the narrow emotional and social range of his characters. And he had been ridiculed for the obscure and costive style of his final period, a style that was able to express the subtlest meanings but was based on the assumption that the reader was as well educated, as exquisitely attuned, and in as little hurry as the author.
6.原来小说主要是一种新闻形式，主要讲述一些浪漫故事。

他则把小说转变成了个人在社会环境中面对种种冲突，，进行深刻转变的文学形式，对人们心理感受进行反映的一种文学形式，他定义这为感受的最高形式helping to transform the novel from its alliances with journalism and
romantic story-telling into an art form of penetrating analysis of individuals confronting society, chronicles of the psychological perceptions that James himself defined as the highest form of experience.
7.教材作品：《一个贵妇人的画像》：”The Portrait of A Lady”
七、Jack London杰克·伦敦1876-1916
1.他在极端贫困中长大，很小的时候，就开始从事低贱和危险的工作，为了生存，他尝尽了生活的艰辛，之后下定决心通过自学来提高自己的生活状况及其他方面he grew up in extreme poverty: from earliest youth he supported himself with menial and dangerous jobs, experiencing profoundly the struggle for survival.
2.1900年第一本故事集《狼子》：”The Son of the Wolf”;
1903年《荒野的呼唤》：”The Call of the Wild”;
1903年《深渊中的人们》”The People of the Abyss”;
1904年《海狼》”The Sea Wolf”
1905年《附级的斗争》“The War of the Classes”;
1906年《白牙》”White Fang”
1908年《铁蹄》”The Iron Heel”
1909年纯自传小说《马丁·伊登》这部作品也是研究杰克·伦敦的核心学术文献“Martin Eden” a central document for London scholars.
1910年《革命》“Revolution”
其他作品《生活的法则》”The Law of Life”.
3.他的小说中最受人们所接受，经得住时间考验的是关于强者与弱者之间原始又动人心魄的较量描写，这类作品一直经久不衰，他总是习惯把这些场景放在一些不可抗力，如骇人的大海及北极的荒野等大背景下来描写the most enduringly popular of his stories involved the primitive (and melodramatic) struggle of strong and weak individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces such as the wild sea or the arctic wastes.
4.伦敦创作的在大自然中生存与抗争的有关人类的小说继续在全球受到欢迎。

在这些作品中，伦敦往往把一切表面现象予以剥离，直到剩下赤裸裸的梦，直到最后最原始的质朴，这种质朴具有古代神话中怪异与震憾的力量London’s stories of man in and against nature continue to be popular all over the world. In them, London strips everything down to the symbolic starkness of dream, to a primordial simplicity that has the strange and compelling power of ancient myth.
5.教材作品：《海狼》”The Sea Wolf”《马丁·伊登》”Martin Eden”
八、Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞1871-1945
全名西奥多·赫尔曼·阿尔伯特·德莱塞Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
1.从母亲那里他学会了与人为善，在幼小心里滋生了对弱者的同情心理，从父亲那里继承了注重道德的人个品质及面对失败、失望、绝望时表现出的坚强不屈的意志from his mother he seems to have absorbed a quality of compassionate wonder, from his father he seems to have inherited moral earnestness and the capacity to persist in the face of failure, disappointment, and despair.
2.德莱塞年幼时生活非常不幸，贫穷，生活不稳定，家庭不和，年轻时，德莱塞不爱动，稀里糊涂，还有点害羞，同他小说中男女主人公一样，充满了各种稀奇古怪的幻相，实际上他的教育大部分来自自己生活的经历，来自独立的阅读和独立的思考Dreiser’s childhood was decidedly unhappy. The large family moved from house to house in Indiana dogged by poverty, insecurity, and internal division. Dreiser as a youth was as ungainly, confused, shy, and full of vague yearnings as most of his fictional protagonists, male and female, his education was to come from experience and from independent reading and thinking.
3.1900年他的第一部小说《嘉莉妹妹》，小说讲述了嘉莉·米贝的发迹和G·W·赫兹伍德的悲剧性陨落，该书通过人物描写，描绘了当时转型的社会，剧中人物既没有悔过之心，还逃脱了惩罚，用语较为激烈”Sister Carrie”, which traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G·W·Hurstwood. It depicted social transgressions by characters who felt no remorse and largely escaped punishment, and it used “strong” language and used names of living persons.
4.最为成功的短篇小说
《尼吉尔·杰夫》、《巴塞尔·洛格劳的女儿》his best short fictions “Nigger Jeff” and “Butcher Rogaum’s Daughter”
1910年《珍妮姑娘》”Jannie Gerhardt”
“欲望三部曲”：1912年《金融家》；1914年《巨人》及1947年的《斯多葛》，作品通过这三部作品开始了转变，即从描述无助悲惨的主人公的故事转向描写那些社会和商业上占支配地位的平凡的人的能力”Trilogy of Desire”: “The Financier”; “The Titan”; “The Stoic”, Dreiser shifted from the pathos of helpless protagonists to the power of those unusual individuals who assume dominant roles in business and society.
5.1915年《天才》”Genius”. 1928年《德莱塞访苏印象记》”Dreiser Looks at Russia”
6.1925年出版的最为恢宏，最为成功的小说《美国悲剧》表达了金钱万能的同样主题，作者通过自传性的生活环境，社会现实及工业化细节等交织成一幅气势恢宏的场面，描写了书中年轻的主人公的行为方式，他获得满足的唯一方式好像就是不断地获取财富，如果必要还可以借助于婚姻the identification of potency with money is at the heart of Dreiser’s greatest and most successful novel, “An American Tragedy”. The Center
of this immense novel’s thick texture of biographical circumstance, social fact, and industrial detail is a young man who acts as if the only way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiring wealth-through marriage if necessary.
7.教材作品：《嘉莉妹妹》：”Sister Carrie”
PartⅤTwentieth-Century Literature二十世纪文学
一、Ezra Pound埃兹拉·庞德1885-1972
1.埃兹拉·卢米斯·庞德Ezra Loomis Pound。

他是一位非常具有个性的诗人，他能把传统与令人深刻和大胆的创新很熟练地结合起来he had a distinct poetic personality, he combined a command of the older tradition with impressive and often daring originality.他是一位多产的随笔作家，他不断地为纽约、伦敦、巴黎的小杂志撰稿，然后把这些作品汇集到一起，于是便组成了一个令人兴奋的文学大世界，他坚持无私地扶持那些刚入道，没什么影响，而他认为有前途的文学艺术家，最为重要的可能就是他给T·S·爱略特的帮助了he was a prolific essayist for the little magazines of New York, London, Paris, which then constituted a large and exciting literary world. He unselfishly and persistently championed the experimental and often unpopular artists. Most important of all, perhaps, was the advice and encouragement which he gave to T·S· Eliot.
2.庞德和爱略特的作品都要求他们的读者熟悉古典作品，包括意大利和英国文艺复兴时期的作品，特别是欧洲大陆地区文学，包括法国象征主义，庞德保持了作品的艰深晦涩风格 both Pound and Eliot required of their readers a familiarity with the classics, the productions of Italian and English Renaissance,, and specialized areas of Continental literature, including the works of the French symbolists. Pound’s continued to draw fundamentally upon his formidably recondite culture.
3.《向塞克斯图·普罗佩提多斯致敬》”Homage to Sextus Propertius”; 《人物》（或《面具》）”Personae” or “Masks”;
1920年《休·赛尔温·毛伯利》被看作是有关一战战争实质的讽刺类代表作”Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”, considered as a satire of the materialistic forces involved in World WarⅠ;
1917年开始创作《诗集》，截止1959年总首数已达109首，有点象但丁的《神曲》，也是由三个部分组成，结构较为松散，作品中的主人公是喜剧性的人而不是神，他认为人类文明的毁灭主要是由于人类的三个时期，即上古时期、复兴时期和现代时期缺乏信用所至”The Cantos”, began in 1917, by 1959, the numbered 109 poems. The progressive series, exceeding the proposed limit of one hundred poems, are loosely connected cantos, like Dante’s “Divina Commedia” in three sections, but representing a comedy human, not divine, dealing with the wreck of civilizations by reason of the infidelity of mankind in the three epochs-the ancient world, the Renaissance, and the modern period.
4.二战期间，庞德代表意大利政府，运用广播形式对美国军队进行强烈的谴责。

回国后作为美国公民，他因叛国罪而遭起诉，但法庭审查时，被判无罪。

1958年叛国起诉撤消后，又返回意大利，1972年在判去世during World War Ⅱ, Pound, on behalf of the Italian government, conducted radio broadcasts beamed at the American troops. He was returned to the United States as a citizen accused of treason, but on examination he was declared insane. After the treason charges were dismissed in 1958, Pound returned to Italy, where he died in 1972.
5.教材作品：《一台古钢琴》：”A Virginal”《再次致意》：”Salutation the Second”《合同》：”A Pact”
《地铁站台》”In a Station of the Metro”《长干行》”The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
二、Edwin Arlington Robison埃德温·阿林顿·罗宾逊1869-1935
1.他是二十世纪最多产的美国新一代诗人之一。

罗宾逊以律诗的形式，以这个小镇为背景创作了一部名叫《蒂尔伯里小镇》的诗集，随后他出生的加德纳镇也因此而改名为蒂尔伯里 one of the most productive of the new poets of the 20th century. Gardiner later became “Tilbury Town”, the title of an early collection of Robinson’s poetry, and the background for a series of vivid character sketches in verse.
2.罗宾逊是在凄凉和贫穷之中开始自己的诗歌创作，走上他的诗人之路的，他居住在纽约环境最差的地方，平时靠打零工来维持生活 Robison began his career as a poet in bleakness and poverty. He lived in difficult circumstances in New York City, working at various odd jobs. 西奥多·罗斯福总统得知他生活艰难情况后，于1905年把他安排在纽约一个海关开始担任一个小职员The President, Theodore Roosevelt, learning of the poet’s difficulties, in 1905 gave Robinson a clerk’s job in the customhouse in New York.
3.1904年《克雷格舰长》”Captain Craig”
4.1922, 1925, 1928年连续三次获得普利策文学奖he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize in …..
《理查·珂利》、《米尼弗·契维》是他现实主义创作取向的较好范例“Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy” are good example of his realistic attitudes. 《本·琼生招待一个来自斯特拉福德的朋友》是一部关于莎士比亚性格特点的一个精彩评论“Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford” a brilliant commentary on Shakespeare’s character.
《默林》、《兰斯洛特》及《特拉斯特拉姆》是关于亚瑟王故事作品，从隐藏在人性中的缺点和阴暗面进行了深刻剖析，得出圆桌骑士团的衰落直至灭亡的原因“Merlin”, “Lancelot”, “Tristram”were about Arthurian legends. Robinson typically explored the dark, hidden faults in human character that led to the decline and fall of the Round Table.
5.教材作品：《山上的古屋》：”The House on the Hill”《理查·珂利》：”Richard Cory”《米尼弗·契维》：”Miniver Cheevy”
三、Robert Frost罗伯特·弗洛斯特1874-1963
1.在去世时弗洛斯特已成为了美国民族诗人的翘首，曾四次获得普利策奖，美国国会还通过了庆祝他生日的一个议案。

在他87岁高龄时，在美国总统约翰·F·肯尼迪的就职仪式中，他还念了自己的一首诗歌by the end of his life he had become a national bard; he won four Pulitzer Prizes;
the United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthdays, and when he was eighty-seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F· Kennedy.
2.1912年决定闯荡文坛，航海到英国，1913年在伦敦出版了第一本诗集《小男孩的意志》in 1912 he decided to venture everything on a literary career. He sailed for England. 1913, in London, his first book “A Boy’s Will” was published.
3.1914年第二部诗集《波士顿以北》，后回美国a second volume of poems “North of Boston”, then Frost returned.
1916年《山陵》”Mountain Interval”
1923年《新罕布什尔》”New Hampshire”
1928年《小河西流》”West-Running Brook”
1936年《又一片农场》”A Further Range”
1942年《智慧树》”A Witness Tree”
1947年《绒毛锈线菊》“Steeple Bush”
1962年《空旷地》”In the Clearing”
4.弗洛斯特反对当时的许多诗歌改革原则，相反奉行“旧瓶装新酒”的原则，采用旧形式来表达新内容，他采用新英格兰乡村的朴实用语，特别偏好传统的抒情类和叙事类，短小精悍的格式，作为一个自然主义诗人，很明显，他的作品中体现了浪漫主义作家的一些风格，在他看来，大自然是比喻和象征的无穷宝藏，作品中没有宗都的说教和冥想的玄思，他的诗歌都浅显明了，经常探讨黑暗中的神秘，宇宙万物中的各种不同的荒凉和嘈杂的风景，其实这就是人类自身居住的世界的另外一种表现，这个世界复杂、无助、孤寂Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporanes, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”. He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative, As a poet of nature he had obvious affinities with romantic writers. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, but he had little faith in religious dogma or speculative thought. His poetry, for all its apparent simplicity, often probes mysteries of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapes of an indifferent universe where men stand alone, unaided and perplexed.
5.教材作品：《摘罢苹果》：”After Apple-Picking”《没有走的路》：”The Road Not Taken”
《雪夜林边小立》：”Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”《部分》：”Departmental”
《设计》：”Design”《大多数》：”The Most of It”
四、Carl Sandburg卡尔·桑德堡1878-1967
1.在世时就获得了极高的评价，成为了美国电视观众所熟悉的诗人，美国人听他读他的诗作，吟唱他的民间故事，听他讲述关于林肯的各种奇闻轶事he lived to enjoy enormous popular acclaim, by the end of his life he had become a familiar figure to national television audiences who listened to him read his poems, sing folk ballads and relate anecdotes about Lincoln.
2.同前辈惠特曼一样，桑德保的诗作描绘了美国人民生活的方方面面，描写了大草原及西部和东部的风光，他把现代城市作为花边勾画出了一幅优美的图景，从民粹主义者激进观点出发，桑德堡歌颂那些被社会遗弃的人，歌颂那些曾为城市文明作出贡献的移民和普通老百姓，歌颂那些在工业文明化的过程中已逝的和存活下来的人们with the precedent of Whitman behind them, they present a sweeping panorama of American life, encompassing priairie, eastern,, and western landscapes as well as vignettes of the modern city. They celebrate, from the standpoint of a Populist radical, the lives of outcasts, the contributions of immigrants and common people to urban culture, and the occupations of those who have survived or been sacrificed in the rise of industrial civilization.
3.1914年《芝加哥诗集》”Chicago Poems”
1918年《剥玉米的人》”Cornhuskers”
1920年《烟与钢》”Smoke and Steel”
1922年《太阳烧灼的西方石板》”Slabs of the Sunburnt West”
其它诗作《冰冷的墓》”Cool Tombs”; 《闪烁的深红》”Flash Crimson”
1936年《人民，是的》”People, Yes”
1927年《美国歌谣汇编》”The American Songbag”
1919年《芝加哥种族动乱》”The Chicago Race Riots”
《路特拜故事集》“The Rootabaga Stories” (for Children)
4.1929《摄影家斯泰肯》、1932年《玛丽·林肯》是他的二部传记性质的作品his biographies “Steichen the Photographer” and “Mary Lincoln”他的散文代表作是《亚拍拉罕·林肯》，是一部纪念性的颂扬类传记His major work in prose was monumental and celebratory biography of Abraham Lincoln.
5.教材作品：《芝加哥》：”Chicago”《港湾》：”The Harbor”《雾》：”Fog”《冰冷的墓》”Cool Tombs”
《闪烁的深红》”Flash Crimson”《人民，是的》”The People, Yes”
五、Wallace Stevens华莱士·斯蒂文斯1879-1955。