英美文學(xué)常識【5】
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Hawthorne went to Europe and worked as American consul to Liverpool, then traveled as a tourist in France and Italy, the experience of which helped him produce another book, [[The Marble Faun]]玉石雕像 (1860).A romance set in Italy, the book is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.
aberration 失常 err=walk

Hawthorne's intellectuals are usually villains(bad character), dreadful because they are devoid of warmth and feeling.

As Whitman saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule

“Benito Cereno, ”a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage,
《白尼托·寨尼諾》是部中篇小說,寫的是一條船上被販運(yùn)的黑奴反抗嘩變把船長據(jù)為人質(zhì)的故事。

Robert frost sailed for England, where his first book, [[A Boy's will]] (1913), brought him to the? attention of influential critics.
