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) things.
好冷嘲人生者，是個當他聞到花香之時就會四處找尋棺 材的人。
Jury--A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN 1880-1956
LIFE
When he was nine years old, he red Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, which he described it as the most stupendous(惊人的) event in his life and he determined to become a writer.
* He chooses the strongest words possible, words bordering on the abusive--dreadfully hideous abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on ad nauseam.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
A c to many persons he is glad he doesn't know .
* He uses figures of speech profusely to create nauseating and dreadful images to reinforce his verbal attack, such as hyperbole, sarcasm, ridicule and irony.
COMMENTS
American Editor & Satirist The “Sage（哲人，贤人） of Baltimore （巴尔
的摩） The most prominent newspaperman Book reviewer Political commentator
When he was 68,Mencken suffered a stroke that left him aware and fully conscious but nearly unable to read or write, and to speak with some difficulty.
STYLE
Mencken is well-known for his bombastic style and acid tongue and in this piece he doesn’t just berate and revile the ugliness of Westmoreland, he attacks the whole American race --- a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, that lusts to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
MAJOR WORKS
The American Language (1918) --expressions and idioms --- leading authority
Prejudices (1919–27)-- social &cultural weaknesses
Happy Days (1940), Newspaper Days (1941)& Heathen Days (1943)--autobiographical trilogy(三部曲）--journalism
QUOTATIONS
A cynic is a man who, when he smells a flower, looks around for a coffin.
(A cynic is a person who believes that all men are selfish.
He sees little or no good in anything and shows this by making unkind and unfair remarks about people and
When he was 50(in 1930), Mencken married Sara Haardt, a professor of English at Goucher College,but Haardt was in poor health from tuberculosis throughout their marriage and she died in 1935
LITERATURE FEATURES
Mencken’s journalistic skills became his chief handicap as a critic, for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention, esthetic and philosophical distinctions for the reductions of easy reading, and subtleties of statement for buffoonery and bombast. Yet, though one may deplore his methods, they gained a wide audience and opened the way for the development of criticism, though he himself has no disciples.
Mencken’s appreciation of the juicy phrase interested him in its informal aspects. Behind this interest was a distrust of Englishmen--a philo-Teutonism– that deluded him into holding that American speech was the unique product of a new environment. By the time of his death on Jan. 29,1956, in his beloved Baltimore, recognition of his service to the language was everywhere admitted.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
好冷嘲人生者，是個當他聞到花香之時就會四處找尋棺 材的人。
Jury--A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN 1880-1956
LIFE
When he was nine years old, he red Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, which he described it as the most stupendous(惊人的) event in his life and he determined to become a writer.
* He chooses the strongest words possible, words bordering on the abusive--dreadfully hideous abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on ad nauseam.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
A c to many persons he is glad he doesn't know .
* He uses figures of speech profusely to create nauseating and dreadful images to reinforce his verbal attack, such as hyperbole, sarcasm, ridicule and irony.
COMMENTS
American Editor & Satirist The “Sage（哲人，贤人） of Baltimore （巴尔
的摩） The most prominent newspaperman Book reviewer Political commentator
When he was 68,Mencken suffered a stroke that left him aware and fully conscious but nearly unable to read or write, and to speak with some difficulty.
STYLE
Mencken is well-known for his bombastic style and acid tongue and in this piece he doesn’t just berate and revile the ugliness of Westmoreland, he attacks the whole American race --- a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, that lusts to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
MAJOR WORKS
The American Language (1918) --expressions and idioms --- leading authority
Prejudices (1919–27)-- social &cultural weaknesses
Happy Days (1940), Newspaper Days (1941)& Heathen Days (1943)--autobiographical trilogy(三部曲）--journalism
QUOTATIONS
A cynic is a man who, when he smells a flower, looks around for a coffin.
(A cynic is a person who believes that all men are selfish.
He sees little or no good in anything and shows this by making unkind and unfair remarks about people and
When he was 50(in 1930), Mencken married Sara Haardt, a professor of English at Goucher College,but Haardt was in poor health from tuberculosis throughout their marriage and she died in 1935
LITERATURE FEATURES
Mencken’s journalistic skills became his chief handicap as a critic, for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention, esthetic and philosophical distinctions for the reductions of easy reading, and subtleties of statement for buffoonery and bombast. Yet, though one may deplore his methods, they gained a wide audience and opened the way for the development of criticism, though he himself has no disciples.
Mencken’s appreciation of the juicy phrase interested him in its informal aspects. Behind this interest was a distrust of Englishmen--a philo-Teutonism– that deluded him into holding that American speech was the unique product of a new environment. By the time of his death on Jan. 29,1956, in his beloved Baltimore, recognition of his service to the language was everywhere admitted.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.