一、《美國文學(xué)選讀》由復(fù)旦大學(xué)外文系編注,共三冊,第一冊,美國獨立革命到第一次世界大戰(zhàn);第二冊,兩次大戰(zhàn)之間;第三冊,戰(zhàn)后到八十年代。二、本書每篇大多由“作者簡介”、“題解”、“選文”和“注釋”四個部分組成。有些選文因可獨立成章,“題解”從略。三、作家與作品大體按出生年月、發(fā)表時間的先后排列。但少數(shù)作家、作品因文學(xué)流派或地位影響等關(guān)系,編排次序稍有變動。
Irving Babbitt(1865-1933)
from Rousseau and Romanticism
Willa (Sibert)Cather (1873-1947)
from My Antonia
Gertrude Stein(1874-1956)
from The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)
from Winesburg,Ohio
Mother
Departure
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)
Fog
Grass
from The People,Yes
Wallace Stevens(1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Sunday Morning
Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956)
from The American Language
William Carlos Williams(1883-1963)
Proletarian Portrait
The Widows Lament in Springtime
Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)
from Babbitt——Chapter II
Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
from The Cantos
In a Station of the Metro
Hilda Doolittle(H.D.)(1886-1961)
Orchard
Oread
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)
from The Waste Land——1.The Burial of the Dead
Eugene ONeill(1888-1985)
The Emperor Jones
Katherine Anne Porter(1980-1980)
Flowering Judas
Archibald Macleish(1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
Michael Gold (1894-1967)
from Jews Without Money
Chapter III: A Gang of Little Yids
E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)
O Sweet Spontaneous
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled Galadly Beyond
Edmund Wilson(1895-1972)
from Axels Castle
John Dos Passos(1896-1970)
from U.S A.
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