英美文学常识【2】

1608 John Milton 1674 

1637 Lycidas 《利西达斯》

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年他出版了首部长篇小说《人间天堂》，这部书在某种程度上讲，是他的自传。

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.

这部小说是如此成功，它不但给他赢得了财富和荣誉，还为他赢来了大奖——那就是当地一位著名法官的漂亮的无忧无虑的千金姗尔达·塞亚。

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.

这部书也遵循《人间天堂》中的同一主题，刻画了一位富裕年轻人在一场不稳定的婚姻中感情和精神上的崩溃。

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.