美国诗人文学史04freneau.pdf

PhilipFreneau(1752-1832)

➢“PoetoftheAmerican

Revolution”

➢“FatherofAmerican

Poetry”

➢“PioneeroftheNew

EnglandRomanticism”

➢“Agiftedandversatile

lyricpoet”

PhilipFreneau

Themostoutstandingwriterofthe

revolutionaryperiod.

▪FatherofAmericanPoetry.

▪Heisatonceasatiristandasentimentalist,

ahumanitarianbutabitterpolemicist,apoet

andapoliticaljournalist.

▪Ononehand,hewasapowerinjournalism

andpolitics,whoseproseandpoems,

likePaine,gavetheFederalistsadeadlyweapon.

Ontheotherhand,FreneauheraldedAmericanliry

cebyhiscloseobservationofnaturedistinguishing

histreatmentofindigenouswildlifeandothernativeAmerican

subjects.

▪Masterpieces:

▪TheWildHoneySuckleandThenBuryingGround

1.HisWorks

“TheWildHoneySuckle”

(1786)

•“ThenBurying

Ground”(1788)《野忍冬花》

《印第安人墓地》

2.Life

•HewasborninNewYork.

•At16,heenteredthe

CollegeofNewJersey

(nowPretonUniversity).

Thewild

•Whilestillan

honeysuckle

undergraduate,hewrotein

collaborationwithoneof

hisfriendsapoementitled

“TheRisingGloryof

America”.

▪In1771hedecideddoapostgraduate

studyintheology.Buttwoyearslaterhe

gaveitup.

▪In1780,hewastakenprisonerasa

passengeronanAmericanshipattacked

bytheBritish.

▪Afterbeingreleased,hepublished“The