最新提问
我的动态
登录后查看动态
题目内容
题目材料：
The fiction of American writer William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) is frequently too verbose, sentimental, and melodramatic for modem literary tastes. While something similar could be said of many of Simms's near contemporaries, including Melville and Poe, these others were fortunate in having their works rescued from the dustbin of time. Simms, however, was unfortunate in at least one respect: his only biographer for a hundred years, William P. Trent (1892), was unwilling to grant Simms the credit due for his insistence on a so-called American literature and for his constant experimentation with the themes and forms of that fledgling literature. Simms's insistence on a literary independence grounded in intrinsically American subject matter constitutes an important contribution to American literatures development.
以上解析由 考满分老师提供。
