The last of the Mochicans 最后的末希干人

3.    William Cullen Bryant (romantic poet)
               poems
The fountain
               The white-footed deer
               A forest hymn
               The flood of years

4.    Edgar Allen Poe
            Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 怪诞奇异故事集
            The Fall of the House Usher 呃舍屋的倒塌
            The Raven 乌鸦
            To Helen  致海伦
            The City in the Sea   海城
5.    Ralph Waldo Emerson
            Nature
            Self-Reliance
            The Transcendentalist
            The American Scholar
            Divinity School Address   神学院的演说
6.    Henry David Thoreau
             Walden 瓦尔登湖
             Resistance to Civil Government 抵制公民政府
             Civil Disobedience 论市民的不服从
7.    Nathaniel Hawthorne
             Scarlet letter
             Mosses from an old manse 古屋青苔
            
8.    Herman Meville
            Moby Dick 大白鲸
            Typee   泰比
9.    Walt Whitman  (诗人)
            Leaves of Grass
            Song of myself  自我之歌
10.    Emily Dickinson  （诗人）
         The Poems of Emily Dickinson
         This is my letter to the world
         I heard a fly buzz when I died


四：现实主义时期
时间：19世纪中期到20世纪末
特点：The rise and development of American literary realism was the product of the changes in American politics and economic development

著名作家：
1.    Harriet Beecher Stowe
        Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2.    Mark Twain
        The adventure of Tom Sawyer
        The adventure of Huckleberry Finn
        The Innocents abroad   傻瓜出国记
        The Prince and Pauper   王子和贫民
        The Gilded Age         镀金时代
3.    O Henry
        The Cop and the Anthem
4.    Henry James
         Daisy Miller
         The portrait of a lady   贵夫人的画像
         The Ambassadors   大使们
         The wings of a dove  鸽翼

5.    Jack London
          The son and the wolf
          The call from the wild
          The sea-wolf
          White fang 白獠牙
          The people of the Abyss 深渊中的人们
          Martin Eden 马丁易登

6．Theodore Dreiser
              Sister Carrie
              Jennie Gerhardt  珍妮姑娘
Trilogy of Desire
              An American Tragedy
              The Financier
              The Genius 

五：美国当代文学
时间：一战后
特点：writers of this time freed themselves from traditional concepts of culture and morality and created the literary art of modernism. The writers of lost generation were frustrated by the war and literature accordingly was featured by disillusionment of ideas and civilization.
主要作家
诗歌
1.    Ezra pound (imagism poet)
           In a station of Metro 地铁站里
           The Cantos  诗章
           Homage to Sextus Propertius
           Personage 人物
           The Pisan Cantos  比萨诗章

2.    Robert Frost (新英格来背景的诗人)
       A Boy’s Wish
       North of Boston
       A Witness tree  一棵作证的树
       Mountain Interval 山间
       A Further Range 又一片牧场

3.    Wallace Stevens （诗人）
      Harmonium      (风琴)
      The man with blue Guitar
      The Auroras of Autumn  （秋天的晨曦）
      Collected Poems  诗集

4.    Thomas Stearns Eliot (诗人，剧作家，1948年诺贝尔文学奖)
     Ash Wednesday     圣灰星期三
     Murder in the Cathedral    大教堂的谋杀
     The Waste land      荒原
     The Hollow Man      空心人
     The Sacred Wood     圣林

小说
1.    Sinclair Lewis （第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国作家）
             Our Mr. Wrenn   我们的雷恩先生
             The Job     求职
             The Main Street 大街
             Babbit  吧比特

2.    Eugene O Neill(唯一一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的剧作家)
             The Iceman Cometh 送冰的人来了
             The long day’s journey into night 长夜漫漫路迢迢
             The Hairy Ape  毛猿
             Emperor Jones  琼斯皇帝
             The Great God Brown  大神布朗
             Desire under the Elm   榆树下的欲望
             All the God’s Children Got Wings 上帝的儿女都有翅膀
            
3.    F. Scott Fitzgerald （爵士乐时代的优秀编年体作家）
              The Side of Paradise 人间天堂
              The Beautiful and the Damned 漂亮冤家
              Tender is the night 月色温柔
              The Great Gatsby  了不起的盖兹比