Henry L. Mencken----Emily
高英--Henry Louis Mencken简介
Introduction
• When he was nine years old, he read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, which he described it as the most stupendous(惊人的) event in his life and He determined to become century journalist satirist, social critic, cynic, freethinker .he is known as the sage of Baltimore. and he is often regard as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Introduction
• Mencken was born in September 12, 1880, When Mencken was three, his family moved into a new home in the Union Square neighborhood of Baltimore(巴尔的摩,美国一座港市).
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• Mencken was the most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day.
• Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案(修订)
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock”C. Murder in the CathedralD. The Hollow Men2. Shell ey’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd5. Jane Austen’ s practical ideali sm is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing e nd then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally cons idered as his masterpiece.A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Captain SingletonD. A Journal of the Plague Year12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s Trav elsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.A. England was the “workshop of the world”.B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.A. Little NellB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Little Dorrit17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’ s Love19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.A. Hand TimesB. Great ExpectationsC. Our Mutual FriendD. Bleak House20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168923. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.A. HawthorneB. DreiserC. JamesD. Faulkner24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. JamesD. Whitman25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage toa beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.A. DreiserB. FaulknerC. FitzgeraldD. Jack London26. Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, ________, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces.A. Song of MyselfB. Moby - DickC. The Marble FaunD. Mosses from an Old Manse27. The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. The Art of FictionD. The Golden Bowl28. During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was severely wounded in both legs.A. AndersonB. FaulknerC. HemingwayD. Dreiser29. In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Earnest HemingwayD. Ezra Pound30. Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range31. We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism32. As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation33. From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic34. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. HemingwayB. FrostC. FaulknerD. Whitman35. With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A. FaulknerB. HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. Fitzgerald36. The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way ofa vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age37. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives38. H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James39. In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals40. In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. HawthorneII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background?C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?42. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half- deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one -night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster- shells:(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S E liot. )Questions:A. What does the poem present?B. What form is the poem composed in?C. What does the poem suggest?43. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me -The simple News that Nature told -With tender MajestyQuestions:A. Identify the poet.B. What idea does the poem express?C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?44. There was music from my neighbor’ s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week - ends his Rolls - Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing- brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (The passage above is taken from The Great Gatsby )Questions:A. What time does the story reflect?B. What does the novel evoke?C. What does Gatsby’ s failure magnify?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton’ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.47. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?48. Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.50. Please discuss Henry James’ contribution to American literature in regard to his representative works, themes, writing techniques and language.英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码0604）I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCDII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England.B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀).* 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。
美国文学作家及作品汇总(英语)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙;The Innocent’s Abroad 傻瓜出国记;The Gilded Age 镀金时代;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆· 索耶历险记;The Prince and the Pauper 王子与贫儿;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利· 费恩历险记;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 亚瑟王宫中的美国佬;The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson 傻瓜威尔逊;Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 冉· 达克;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏哈德莱堡的人 How to Tell a Story 怎样讲故事---对美国早期幽默文学的总结 The Luck of Roaring Camp 咆哮营的幸运儿------乡土文学作家 The Rise of Silas Lapham 赛拉斯· 拉帕姆的发迹;A Modern Instance 现代婚姻; A Hazard of Now Fortunes 时来运转;A Traveller from Altruia 从 利他国来的旅客;Through the Eye of the Needle 透过针眼----乌托邦小说;Criticism and Fiction;Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading 小说创作与小说 阅读 History of the United States During the Administration of Jefferson and Madison( 历史著作 )；The Education of Henry Adams:An Autobiography 享利· 亚当斯的教育 Principles of Psychology 心理学原理；The Will to Believe 信仰的意志；Pragmatism:A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 实用主义：某 些旧思想方法的新名称；The Meaning of Truth 真理的意义 小说：Daisy Miller 苔瑟· 米乐；The Portrait of a Lady 贵妇人画像；The Bostonians 波士顿人；The Real Thing and Other Tales 真货色及其他故 事；The Wings of the Dove 鸽翼；The Ambassadors 大使；The Golden Bowl 金碗 评论集：French Poets and Novelists 法国诗人和小说家;Hawthorne 霍桑;Partial Portraits 不完全的画像;Notes and Reviews 札记与评论;Art of Fiction and Other Essays 小说艺术 小品集： The Fiend’s Deligh 魔鬼的乐趣;Nuggests and Dust Panned out in California 在加利福尼亚淘出的金块和金粉;Cobwebs from an Empty Skull 来自空脑壳的蜘蛛网 短篇小说集：Tales of Soldiers and Civilians 军民故事;In the Midst of Life 在人生中间;Can Such Things Be?这种事情可能吗？The Devil’s Dictionary 魔鬼词典(The Applicant 申请者) Looking Backward:2000-1887 回顾：从 2000 看 1887 年；Equality 平等；The Duke of Sockbridge:A Romance of Shay’s Rebellion 斯托克布里 奇的公爵：雪司起义的故事;The Blindman’s World and Other Stories 育人的世界及其他 The Man With the Hoe 荷锄人
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John Scopes (1900~1970) He was an American teacher who violated a state law by teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school.His trial was a highly publicized confrontation between defense attorney Clarence Darrow and director of the prosecution ,William Jennings Byran.Scopes was found guilty and fined a nominal sum,but his conviction was later reversed on technical grounds
William Jennings Bryan • William Jennings Bryan(1860年-1925年）
• 中产阶级家庭，不仅在自己的个人生活，而且在政治和国家 事务中都把重点放在宗教和道德上。后来在芝加哥伊利诺伊 州大学法学院毕业后，他开了一家律师事务所.在1887年， 他搬到林肯，内布拉斯加，研究法律并同时转向政治。他曾 经3次代表美国民主党竞选总统。1912年他帮助伍德罗威尔 逊，以确保其总统职位。1913年，威尔逊任命他为国务卿。 在第一次世界大战中，他主张中立政策，希望美国在可以对 立的双方扮演仲裁员的角色.然而Wilson，没有遵循他的意 见，1915年6月他便辞职。1925年,他执行猴子审判，反对在 公立学校教授进化论。在这次审判中，他那天真幼稚与狭隘 的思想暴露的淋漓尽致。这也是布莱恩最后出现在公众面前。 他去世于1925年。布赖恩被命名为“银舌辩士” ，因为自 己的口才和逻辑思维。在审判期间，尽管达罗苛刻专探，他 仍坚定自己的信念，。布莱恩认为，这不是一个科学的问题， 而是神学和哲学。
美国文学精华
美国文学精华HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE目录Table Of Contents国家萌芽期National Beginnings第一章班杰明•富兰克林Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)第二章华盛顿•欧文Washington Irving (1783-1859)第三章詹姆斯•费尼莫•库珀James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)第四章飞利浦•佛瑞诺Philip Freneau (1752-1832)第五章威廉•卡伦•布莱恩特William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)第六章埃德加•爱伦坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849)第七章纳撒尼尔•霍桑Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)浪漫主义与理智判断Romanticism and Reason第八章拉尔夫•沃多•埃默森Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)第九章亨利•戴维梭罗Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)第十章赫曼•梅维尔Herman Melville (1819-1891)第十一章亨利•卫兹伍•郎费罗Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 第十二章华特•惠特曼Walt Whitman (1819-1892)第十三章爱蜜丽•迪克生Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)第十四章马克•吐温Mark Twain (1835-1910)第十五章史蒂芬•克莱恩Stephen Crane (1871 -1900)第十六章亨利•詹姆斯Henry James (1843-1916)美国短篇小说：19世纪的发展The American Short Story: 19th Century Developments第十七章安布鲁斯•毕尔斯Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)第十八章史帝芬•克莱恩Stephen Crane (1871-1900)第十九章埃德加•爱伦坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)第二十章法兰克•史塔顿Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)现实与反应主义Realism and Reaction第二十一章西尔多•德莱塞Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)第二十二章爱德恩•阿灵顿•罗宾森Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) 第二十三章卡尔•山博格Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)第二十四章辛克莱•刘易斯Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)第二十五章亨利•门肯Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956)第二十六章史考特•费兹杰罗 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1886-1940)第二十七章约翰•史坦贝克John Steinback (1902-1968)散文与诗歌中的现代声音Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry第二十八章厄年斯特•海明威Ernest Hemingway第二十九章威廉•福克纳William Faulkner第三十章罗柏特•佛斯特Robert Frost第三十一章阿契博得•麦克列许Archibald MacLeish威廉•卡洛斯•威廉斯William Carlos Williams and 蓝斯顿•休斯Langston Hughes第三十二章凯瑟琳•安•波特Katherine Ann Porter第三十三章索尔•贝罗Saul Bellow第三十四章雷夫•艾利森Ralph Ellison第三十五章罗伯•罗威尔Robert Lowell西尔多•罗特克Theodore Roethke兰德尔．贾雷尔Randall Jarrell and 詹姆斯．赖特James Wright当代美国戏剧作品Modern American Drama第三十六章「回归尘土」Return to Dust第三十七章「其它的演员」The Other Player国家萌芽期National Beginnings美国早期的文学既非美国人所著也非真正的文学，这些著作不属于美国的原因就是因为它们都是从英国流传进来的。
英文情话
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul F. Richter"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them." - Anais Nin to Henry Miller"Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - anonymous quotation"Till I loved I never lived—enough." - Emily Dickenson"O happy hours when I may once more encircle within these arms the dearest object of my love- when I shall again feel the pressure of that 'aching head' which will delight to recline upon my bosom, when I may again press to my heart which palpitates with the purest affection that loved one who has so long shared its undivided devotion." - Alexander Hamilton Rice"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah G. Holland"Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me without change / Desire me without inhibitions." - Dick Sutphen"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Nietzsche"Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you —to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet." - Zelda Fitzgerald"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -George Sands"My love for you is a journey;Starting at forever,And ending at never."- anonymous quotation"You're nothing short of my everything." - Ralph Block"All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson"I tell you I love you every day for fear that tomorrow isn't another." - anonymous quotation"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp"I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to Sophia Hawthorne"She walks in beauty,Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes."- Byron"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other." - Lucian de Croszonza"We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire." - Marge Piercy"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." - Sarah Bernhardt"I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion... I have shudder'd at it... I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a power I cannot resist." - letter written by John Keats"It is not night when I do see your face."- Shakespeare"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love."- Virgil"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."- Antoine De Saint"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."- Peter Ustinov"My heart is ever at your service."- William Shakespeare"If I know what love is, it is because of you."- Herman Hesse"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."- Karen Sunde"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."- Plato"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."- Robert Frost"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."- Jalaluddin Rumi"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."- Aristotle"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."- Saint Thomas Aquinas"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."- Henry Louis Mencken"Love doesn?t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."- Franklin P. Jones"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."- Ralph Waldo EmersonTrue love stories never have endings.-Richard BachI love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.-John KeatsIf you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.-Oscar WildeLove planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.-Katharine Lee BatesThe real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.-Marilyn MonroeA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.-Charlie ChaplinLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.-Maya AngelouWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.-William Makepeace ThackerayThe romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.-Joan ChenAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan PoeKiss me and you will see how important I am. - Sylvia PlathMy dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.-Wild Bill HickokWhen I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. - William Makepeace ThackerayToday I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.-Edmond de GoncourtVulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'-Ashton KutcherBeauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.-Samuel DanielThere is no instinct like that of the heart. - Lord ByronAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Khalil GibranWhat is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.- Robert HerrickThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. - Jane AustenNow I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.-Conor OberstI believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.-Max MullerThe word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.Billy GrahamI'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.-F. Scott FitzgeraldFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.-Stephen KingIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson。
The_Fair_Lady_Summary_中文版
《窈窕淑女》是一部根据萧伯纳的《皮格马利翁》改编的音乐剧，由艾伦·杰伊·勒纳作词，弗雷德里克·洛韦作曲。
这个故事与伊丽莎·杜立特有关，她是伦敦的一个花童，她从一位语音学家亨利·希金斯教授那里学习语言，这样她就可以作为一个淑女过世了。
最初的百老汇和伦敦演出由雷克斯·哈里森和朱莉·安德鲁斯主演。
这部音乐剧1956年的百老汇制作是一个引人注目的关键和流行的成功。
它创下了迄今为止百老汇所有节目中播放时间最长的纪录。
接下来是一部轰动一时的伦敦电影，一部受欢迎的电影版本，以及许多复兴。
我美丽的女士被称为“完美的音乐剧”。
PlotAct I它是爱德华七世时代的伦敦，皇家歌剧院，考文特花园。
主角伊丽莎·杜利特是个伦敦人，口音很重，听不懂。
亨利·希金斯教授邀请皮克林上校作为他的房客。
不久之后，伊丽莎·杜利特来到希金斯教授的家里，寻求演讲课。
希金斯教授打赌皮克林上校，六个月后他会教伊丽莎说话得体，把她变成一个淑女。
伊丽莎是希金斯家庭的一名英语学生。
几周后，伊丽莎被介绍给弗雷迪·埃恩斯福德山。
弗雷迪坠入爱河。
伊丽莎的口音现在变得优雅了，她正在接受教育，如何在上流社会中作为一个初出茅庐的人。
伊丽莎最后的考试要求她在大使馆舞会上以淑女的身份通过。
经过几周的准备，她已经准备好了。
舞会上所有的女士们先生们都很佩服她，特兰西瓦尼亚女王邀请她和王子跳舞。
Act II球打得很成功。
皮克林上校和希金斯教授陶醉于他们的胜利，直到希金斯让伊丽莎去取拖鞋，才注意到伊丽莎。
伊丽莎被侮辱了，然后打包离开希金斯家。
她花在学习口语课上的所有努力都没有得到任何赞扬。
希金斯第二天早上醒来。
他发现没有伊莱扎，他只能喝茶而不是咖啡，找不到他的档案。
皮克林上校注意到教授缺乏考虑。
皮克林找到另一个主人，也离开了希金斯家。
希金斯教授很沮丧，去看望他的母亲。
亨利。路易斯。门肯 简介
STYLE
Mencken is well-known for his bombastic style and acid tongue and in this piece he doesn’t just berate and revile the ugliness of Westmoreland, he attacks the whole American race --- a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, that lusts to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
* He chooses the strongest words possible, words bordering on the abusive--dreadfully hideous abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on ad nauseam.
COMMENTS
American Editor & Satirist The “Sage（哲人，贤人） of Baltimore （巴尔
的摩） The most prominent newspaperman Book reviewer Political commentator
美国文学中英文名称对照
美国文学中英文名称对照e Broad-Axe阔斧之歌;I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱;When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom'd小院丁香花开时;Democratic Vistas民主的前景;The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题;Song of Myself自我之歌12、Herman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔1819-1891Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；Typee泰比;Omoo奥穆;Mardi玛地;Redburn雷得本;White Jacket白外衣;Pierre皮尔埃;Piazza广场故事;Billy Budd比利·巴德13、Henry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗1807-1882The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌——美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;V oices of the Night夜吟;Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗;Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗;Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事——诗集：An April Day四月的一天/A Psalm of Life人生礼物/Paul Revere's Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔;Evangeline伊凡吉琳;The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚——叙事长诗；Poems on Slavery奴役篇——反蓄奴组诗14、John Greenleaf Whittier约翰·格林里夫·惠蒂埃1807-1892Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question废奴问题;Voice of Freedom自由之声;In War Time and Other Poems内战时期所作;Snow-Bound大雪封门;The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems海滩的帐篷;Ichabod艾卡博德;A Winter Idyl冬日田园诗15、Harriet Beecher Stowe哈丽特·比彻·斯托1811-1896Uncle Tom's Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋;A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp德雷德阴暗大沼地的故事片;The Minister's Wooing牧师的求婚;The Pearl of Orr's Island奥尔岛的珍珠;Oldtown Folks老城的人们16、Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯1817-1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave弗莱德里克·道格拉斯，一个美国黑人的自述/My Bondage and My Freedom我的枷锁与我的自由/The life and Time of Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯的生平与时代17、Emily Dickinson埃米莉·迪金森1830-1886The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集——"Tell all the truth and tell it slant"迂回曲折的，玄学的18、Mark Twain马克·吐温（Samuel Longhorne Clemens）——美国文学的一大里程碑The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙；The Innocent's Abroad傻瓜出国记；The Gilded Age镀金时代；The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆。
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken（亨利·路易斯·门肯）Henry Louis Mencken（1880-1956) was born into a German-American family in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a twentieth-century journalist, magazine editor, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker. He was known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche" He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.Mencken was born into a family of cigar makers. While he spent his youth and early adulthood following his father's footsteps in the cigar trade, he spent his free time writing and reading voraciously. By the age of eight, he had already become interested in literature, and owned his first library card by the age of nine. When he was 18 years old, Mencken got a job in the Baltimore Morning Herald and became the youngest reporter on the paper. After the Herald closed down, Mencken joined the Baltimore Sun. By 1910, he was publishing a regular column, The Free Lance, in which he took on everything and everyone.In 1924, Mencken began a new journal, called The American Mercury. Aimed at the "civilized minority"; the magazine blended politics, the arts, and sciences. It was the first magazine edited by whites to publish the work of African American authors. The American Mercury influenced other magazines that followed it, including The New Yorker.Mencken wrote many articles about the social scene, literature, music, ethics, women, religion, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, temperance, etc. He was particularly critical of anti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, Christian fundamentalism, creationism, organized religion, and the existence of God.Of his books, Mencken is best known for his monumental study, The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. It is ranked as one of the top 100 influential books in the United States, and lets him enjoy an authoritative status as an expert on American English. It is his three volumes of reminiscences of his childhood and newspaper years that have turned out to be his most popular;namely, Happy Days, Newspaper Days and Heathen Days.He continues to be recognized throughout the world as an influential critic of literature who helped launch the Southern and Harlem literary renaissances.。