Literature,Architecture and Music 文學，建筑和音樂

1)Major American Writers and their works

① Bejamin Franklin(1706-1790)本杰明.富蘭克林: the only writer in the colonial period. Works: Poor Richard'S Almanac, which is an annual collection of proverbs.
殖民地時期的作家。作品：《窮理查年鑒》，一本年度諺語集。

② Washington Irving(1803-1882) 華盛頓 歐文: A History of New Youk紐約外史; The Sketch Book最著名的作品為《見聞札記》，his most famous book, contians “Rip Van Winkle”《瑞普.凡.溫克爾》and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”《睡谷的傳說》

③Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) 愛默生：the leader of the movement of transcendentalism.超驗 主義運動的領導者Works:Nature,（論自然） Self-reliance（論自助）, Representative Men（代表人物）, English Traits and Poems (英國人的性格和詩).

③ Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864) 霍桑：The Scarlet Letter紅字

⑤Mark Twain1835-1910）馬克吐溫: The Celebrated Jumping Frog(《著名的跳蛙》，成名之作) ；The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(a boy book)湯姆.索亞歷險記; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(his master work)哈克貝利.芬歷險記，則是他最杰出著作; Atramp Abroad浪跡海外, Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上, The Golded Age 鍍金時代and Innocents Abroad異鄉奇遇。

⑥Walt Whitman(1819-1892) 沃爾特. 惠特曼: the first to explore fully the possibilities of free verse（探索自由詩體可能性的第一人）. Leaves of Grass(his masterpiece)草葉集, Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) 艾米麗. 狄更生:Death was one of the great themes of her work死亡是她作品的重要主題之一

⑦Theordor Dreiser(1871-1945)西奧多.德萊塞: the representative of naturalists in whose works reported truthfully and objectively the life in the slums.自然主義代表，在他們的作品里對貧民窟的生活進行了真實而客觀的報道。 Works:Trilogy of Desire(欲望三部曲); An American Tragedy(美國的悲劇—被公認為最佳作品，which is considered to be his best)

⑧T.S Eliot(1888-1965);won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946

⑨Emest hemingway(1899-1967)海明威; was awarded the Nobel Prize 諾貝爾文學獎for literature in 1954. A Farewell to Arms永別了，武器; For Whom the Bell Tolls(the two about the first and second world war); 喪鐘為誰而鳴（關于一、二戰的2篇小說）Old Man and the Sea(his representative book)老人與海（代表作）.

2)Harlem Renaissance(哈萊姆復興) and black writing in American literature:

In the 1920s, Black Litrature developed into an upsurge which has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissace.20世紀20年代， 黑人文學蓬勃發展，后來被稱為‘哈萊姆復興’。Langston Hughes(1899-1967) 休斯 (masterpiece: The Weary Blues困倦的BLUES) and Richard Wright(1908-1960) 賴特（masterpiece: Native Son土生子） were the major figures of those Black writers.