2011年8月30日 星期二

The American Society ( Editor, Kenneth S. Lynn) 美國社會

這是1961年哈佛大學拉丁美州研究所為一群巴西訪客上課的教材之一
編者是美國文學專家 選的很好



EMILY DICKINSON (1830-86)

Emily Dickinson was born, grew up, and died in her father's house
on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married, and
in her later years she withdrew from all but epistolary contact with
the outside world.

Yet her poems reveal that the inner life of this inordinately shy
woman trembled with passion and excitement. They record her daring
revolt against the Calvinism of her ancestors, her desire to be loved,
her delight in nature, and her obsession with death. Although they
are deeply personal documents, her poems also tell us a great deal
about the suffocatingly repressive, yet oddly rewarding life of the
smalltown spinster in late nineteenth-century New England.


Three Poems

Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile--the Winds--
To a Heart in port--
Done with the Compass--
Done with the Chart!



美國社會 香港:今日世界 1965


The American Society
by Kenneth S. Lynn
Pages: 250
Contributors: Kenneth S. Lynn
Publisher: George Braziller
Place of Publication: New York
Publication Year: 1963

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