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The Outline of American Literature

Puritanism:Edward Taylor

Revolution and Reason:Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Freneau

Early Romanticism:Irving, Cooper, Bryant Transcendentalism:Emerson, Thoreau

Black Romanticism:Allan Poe,Hawthorne, Melville

Realism:

Poem: Whitman and Dickinson

Local Colorism:Mrs. Stowe, Mark Twain

Psychological:Henry James

Naturalism:O’Henry, Jack London, Dreiser

Modernism

Imagism: Ezra Pound

Lyrical Poet: Robert Frost

Jazz Age: Fitzgerald

Lost Generation: Hemingway, T.S. Eliot

Southern literature: Faulkner

II. Blank Filling

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _____, Virginia.

2. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of __.

3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that dominated much of the early American writing.

4. The best of puritan poets was _____, whose complete edition of poems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _____

6. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering, was appropriately born into an age of ______

7. _____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.

8. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of ______ and Revolution.

9. ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American

romanticism.

10. In I rving’s work _____ appeared the first modern short stories and the first American juvenile literature.

11. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is _____.

12. To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, it has been called by an eminent E nglish critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language”.

13._______ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.

14. It is supposed by many that Edgar Allan Poe wrote the beautiful poem _____ to remember his dead wife.

15. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by ______.

16. Emerson’s essay _____ has been regarded as “American Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.

17. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

18. After his death, _____ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.

19. _______ had originated in the country, France as a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life.

20. The poetic style Whitman devised is now called ______, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

21. Abraham Lincoln ever said, “a little woman wrote a book which made this great war”, which refers that ______ wrote ______ to make ______war.

22. ______ was Mark Twain’s masterwork fro m which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes”.

23. The title of one of O. Henry’s books ______ indicates that he considered all the people of New York city worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.

24. In the period of American realism, ______ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.

25. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an