美國文學(xué)殖民地時期的文學(xué)-資料下載頁
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【正文】 rch). John Cotton’s primary influence was through the pulpit (講壇。布道壇). l The people of Massachusetts delighted to hear him preach, and some of his listeners were convinced that he could make no mistake, for “God would not suffer Mr. Cotton err (犯錯誤，出差錯)”. Yet err he did, great and good man that he was. Practical circumstances allied him with much less noble spirits than his own in suppressing differences of opinion.l Through John Cotton we can see an important characteristic of the Puritans. They were much more concerned with authority than with democracy.l The Puritans faults were those mon to persons who hold extreme opinions.Roger Williams l With Williams begins the history of religious toleration in America, and with him, too, the history of the separation of church and state. Williams advocated the freedom of belief. In him we have a balance to John Cotton. l Roger Williams was interested in the Indian language. One of his works was A Key into the Language of America。 or, A Help to the Language of the Nation in That Part of America Called New England.Anne Bradstreet and Edward TaylorMany Puritans wrote verse, sometimes using that form for their narratives of actual events. Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding (沉重緩慢的, 單調(diào)乏味的), but the work of the two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry.Anne BradstreetAnne Dudley Bradstreet is one of the most interesting of the early poets.Anne Dudley Bradstreet l Both her father and her husband were governors of Massachusetts. l Bradstreet’s first published work appeared in London: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. l She wrote well when she dealt with the simple events of her daily life. The note of piety, gently sounded, was in her work.Edward Taylor: Puritan Preacher and Poet l The best of the Puritan poets was Edward Taylor. His work followed the style and forms of the leading English poets of the midseventeenth century. Edward Taylorl Most of Taylor’s work treated religious themes, with many poems based directly on the Psalms. Taylor did not publish any of his work. His poems were found in manuscript in 1937, more than two hundred years after his death. This discovery brought Taylor to immediate prominence in the colonial literary history, and enriched American poetic heritage. A plete edition of Taylor’s poems appeared in 1960.Study Questionl The United States has been criticized in recent years for assuming an air of moral superiority and for trying to impose its opinion on the rest of the world. Can you find the seeds of these American attitudes in the literature of the first two centuries? Explain your answer by referring to specific works you have read.
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