本书对美国历史上从殖民时期到20世纪初的20位**诗人的90首诗歌进行研究。对诗人的生平和创作风格进行简要介绍;对所选诗歌进行详细解释;概括作品的段落大意和主题思想;对每首作品的创作技巧、思想内容进行分析和讨论。附参考译文。

Fedion One American Poetry of the Colonial Period
Ⅰ.Anne Bradstreet(1612—1672)
1.Life Story
2.on Anne Bradstreet’S Poems
3.SeleCted Poems
(1)70 My Dear and Loving Husband
(2)A Letter to Her husband,Absent upon Public Employment
(3)In Memo~of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,Who Deceased August,1665 Being a Year and a Half Old
Ⅱ.Philip Freneau(1752—1832)
1.Life Story
2.Writing and Achievements
3.Selected Poems
(1)The Wild Honey Suckle
(2)7)bhe Indian Burying Ground
Fedion Two American Poetry of Early Romantic Period
Ⅰ.William Cullen Bryant(1794—1878)
1.Life Story
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Fedion There American Poetry of High Romantic Period
Fedion Four American Poetry of the Modernist Period
Fedion Five American Poetry of Contemporay Time
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