美国文学

彭荻、万莉莉、陈义华

目录

  • 1 colonial period
    • 1.1 I. Background: Puritanism
    • 1.2 1.2Jonathan Edwards: Sinner in the Hands of Angry God
    • 1.3 1.3Anne Bradstreet: Verse upon the Burning of Our House
  • 2 Age of Enlightenment
    • 2.1 Benjamin Franklin ;autobiography
    • 2.2 Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
  • 3 American Romanticism
    • 3.1 What is Romanticsim
    • 3.2 Washington Irving
  • 4 Summit of Romanticism – American Transcendentalism
    • 4.1 four sources, appearance, feature, influence
    • 4.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson :Self-Reliance
    • 4.3 Henry David Thoreau: Walden
  • 5 late Romanticism
    • 5.1 nathaniel Hawthorne
    • 5.2 Herman Melville
  • 6 Romantic Poet
    • 6.1 Walter Whitman
    • 6.2 Emily Dickinson
    • 6.3 comparison: Whitman vs. Dickinson
  • 7 American Gothic Literature
    • 7.1 Edgar Allen Poe
    • 7.2 Raven, The Masque of the Red Death
  • 8 The Age of Realism
    • 8.1 background, characteristics
    • 8.2 Three Giants in Realistic Period
    • 8.3 local colorism
  • 9 American Naturalism
    • 9.1 background,features, significance
    • 9.2 Poems of naturalism
  • 10 The Modern Period
    • 10.1 The 1920s and imagist movement
    • 10.2 Robert Frost
  • 11 Novels in the 1920s
    • 11.1 I.F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • 11.2 II.Ernest Hemingway
  • 12 Southern Literature
    • 12.1 William Faulkner
    • 12.2 Barn Burning
  • 13 American Drama
    • 13.1 Eugene O'Neil
    • 13.2 Absurd Drama
  • 14 The Post-War Period: 50s & 60s
    • 14.1 Allen Ginsburg: Howl
    • 14.2 Sylvia Plath: Daddy (confessionist)
  • 15 Post-War American literature
    • 15.1 Salinger
    • 15.2 Joseph Heller
  • 16 Multi-ethic American Literature
    • 16.1 Hughes:
    • 16.2 Toni Morrison
1.3Anne Bradstreet: Verse upon the Burning of Our House


Anne Bradstreet—the first important poet in the American colonies. Her work The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America(1650) is considered as the first book of original poetry written in colonial America. 

  • She Published in England in 1650 as her first book.

  • Her finest poems are those closest to her personal experience as a Puritan wife and mother living in the edge of the wildness.

  • She found similarities between the domestic details of daily life and the spiritual details of her religious life.

In conclusion,  Anne Bradstreet was not an innovative poet, but her directness and her sincerity are moving.