《新经典高等学校英语专业系列教材:美国文学史及选读(1)》涵盖了殖民地时期至20世纪的美国文学发展史及重要作家作品,既可作为高等学校英语专业文学课教材,也可供广大美国文学爱好者使用。

Part I The Literature of Colonial America
Chapter 1 John Smith
Chapter 2 William Bradford and John Winthrop
Chapter 3 John Cotton and Roger Williams
Chapter 4 Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor

Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Chapter 5 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Chapter 6 Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 8 Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
To a Caty-Did

Part III The Literature of Romanticism
Chapter 9 Washington Irving
The Author’s Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Chapter 10 James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 11 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 12 Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Chapter 14 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 16 Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 17 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Slave’s Dream
My Lost Youth
The Song of Hiawatha

吴伟仁,汉族,1913年10月生于河北邯郸。河北师范大学外国语学院(原外语系)英语教授、全国高等学校外国文学教学研究会理事。长期从事英语语言文学教学和科研工作。主要论著有《意象派和美国现代诗歌》等。