英美文學(xué)常識【2】
1608 John Milton 1674?
1637 Lycidas?《利西達斯》
it is a typical example, composed for ==a collection of elegies dedicated to Edward King, a fellow undergraduate of Milton's at Cambridge==, who was drowned in the Irish Sea.

According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about ==nature and poems about human life==.

Eliot produced only two major volumes of poetic works: [[Ash Wednesday]] (1930) and [[Four Quartets]] (1944).

Tom Jones was generally regarded as Fielding’s?masterpiece.It was Tom Jones that brought his author the name of the “prose Homer”

Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional?in its own way. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.

In 1920, his first novel This Side of Paradise was published, which was, to some extent,his own story.
1920年他出版了首部長篇小說《人間天堂》,這部書在某種程度上講,是他的自傳。
The novel was so successful that it won for him not only wealth and fame, but also the expensive prize of Zelda Sayre, thebeautiful, light-hearted daughter of a prominent judge.
這部小說是如此成功,它不但給他贏得了財富和榮譽,還為他贏來了大獎——那就是當(dāng)?shù)匾晃恢ü俚钠恋臒o憂無慮的千金姍爾達·塞亞。
Following a similar theme seen in This Side of Paradise, it portrays the emotional and spiritual collapse of a wealthy young man during an unstable marriage.
這部書也遵循《人間天堂》中的同一主題,刻畫了一位富裕年輕人在一場不穩(wěn)定的婚姻中感情和精神上的崩潰。

And the ideas governing Whitman's poetry-writing gradually took shape. Feeling compelled to speak up for something new and vital he found in the air of the nation, Whitman turned to the manual work of carpentry around 1851 or 1852, as an experiment to familiarize himself with the reality and essence of the life of the nation.

Penniless and “full of the illusions of? ignorance and youth," she leaves her rural home to seek work? in Chicago.