第4章　安妮·布雷茲特里特和愛德華·泰勒

4.1　復習筆記

I. Anne Bradstreet(1612－1672) (安妮·布雷茲特里特)

(1) Anne Bradstreet is one of the most interesting of the early poets. Both her father and her husband were governors of Massachusetts, all coming here on the first voyage of the Arbella in June 1630.

(2) Her first published work appeared in London titled as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

(3) Some of Anne Bradstreet’s poetic ventures were overambitious, but she wrote well with a note of piety when she dealt with the simple events of her daily life.

(1) 安妮·布雷茲特里特是美國早期最有趣的詩人之一。她的父親和丈夫都曾當過馬薩諸塞州的總督，他們都是第一批乘“阿貝拉”到來的殖民者。

(2) 她的第一部作品在倫敦出版，名為《美國新崛起的第十位繆斯女神》。

(3) 安妮·布雷茲特里特的一些詩歌主題過于宏大，但是她對一些日常生活中的小事描寫得很到位,飽含虔誠。

II. Edward Taylor(1642－1729) (愛德華·泰勒)

(1) The best of the Puritan poets was Edward Taylor, who came from England as a young man and attended Harvard, later entering the major profession of the time, the ministry.

(2) He is the most accomplished poetic craftsman of the early years. His work followed the style and forms of the leading English poets of the mid-seventeenth century.

(3) Most of Taylor’s work treated religious themes, with many poems based directly on the Psalms.

(4) Taylor did not publish any of his work. His poems were found in manuscript in 1937, more than two hundred years after his death. This discovery brought Taylor to immediate prominence in the colonial literary history, and enriched American poetic heritage.

(1) 愛德華·泰勒是清教徒詩人中最優秀的一位，青年時期來自英國，讀完哈佛大學后成為一位專職牧師。

(2) 他是早期詩歌成就最突出的一位詩人。他采用的是17世紀中期英國主流詩人的寫作形式和風格。

(3) 泰勒的大部分作品是以宗教為主題的，并且許多作品直接是基于《圣經》中的詩篇而作的。

(4) 泰勒沒有出版任何作品。直到他去世兩百余年后的1937年，他的手稿才被發現。這一發現立刻使得泰勒成為美國殖民時期文學的重要代表人物，豐富了美國的詩歌傳統。