Chapter6 Early Modern Age.pptVIP

树林真可爱，既深又黑， 但我有许多诺言不能违背， 还要赶多少路才能安睡， 还要赶多少路才能安睡。 飞白译 Chapter Ⅴ Modern Period Early Modern Age Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) A poet of transition Robinson has been termed a sober Transcendentalist He used the traditional forms to express the modern fears and uncertainty in his own era. 1) Works The Children of the Night (1897) The Town down the River (1909) The Man against the Sky (1916) “Richard Cory” “Miniver Cheevy” “Mr. Flood’s Party” 2）Life Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, and was raised nearby in Gardiner which, as “Tilbury Town”, became the setting for many of his poems. His father was a prosperous merchant; his mother had been a schoolteacher. The third of three sons, Robinson had been considered a disappointment by his mother, who had wanted a daughter. He began writing regularly at the age of eleven and in high school attended meetings of the towns poetry society as its youngest member. Robinson attended Harvard from 1891-1893 but was forced to leave Harvard because the family’s business went bankrupt. Misfortune after misfortune came to the family. Later he moved to New York hoping to be a professional poet, but could not earn his living. In 1905, President Roosevelt, who admired his work, arranged a job for Robinson at the New York Customs House where he worked until 1910. After World WarⅠcame the poetic revival and as a poet, after going his own way quietly for so many years, Robinson began to play a major role. 3) Evaluation In his shorter works, Robinson excelled in limning characters who failed on a materialistic level but somehow succeeded, though at great cost on a moral or spiritual level. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry three times in the 1920s (1922,25,28), a record exceeded only by Robert Frost, who was rewarded the prize four times in all. Joseph Plitzer Robinson was the first major American poet of the twentieth century, unique in that he devo