抒情歌谣集（华兹华兹与柯勒律治） 英文原版 Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge，William Wordsworth 

基本信息

By (author) Samuel Taylor Coleridge , By (author) William Wordsworth

Format Paperback | 128 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 7mm | 100g

Publication date 30 Jan 2007

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

ISBN10 0140424628

ISBN13 9780140424621

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《抒情歌谣集》宣告了浪漫主义新诗的诞生。华兹华斯在1800年《抒情歌谣集》第二版的序言中详细阐述了浪漫主义新诗的理论，主张以平民的语言抒写平民的事物、思想与感情，被誉为浪漫主义诗歌的宣言。

1798年，华兹华斯与柯勒律治将各自的诗歌合为一册，定名为《抒情歌谣集》。但其中柯勒律治的诗仅有四首较短的诗和一篇长诗《老水手行》。诗集中除了第一首（柯勒律治的《古舟子咏》）和最后一首（即《丁登寺》）外，并未包括两人最优秀的作品。然而，历史证明，正是这部问世之初遭到苛评的诗集开创了一代诗风，成为英国文学史上尤其是诗歌领域里的一座里程碑。它摆脱了多数18世纪诗人所恪守的简洁、典雅、机智、明晰等古典主义的创作原则；在形式上摒弃了在蒲柏手里达到登峰造极地步并垄断了当时诗坛的英雄双韵体；在内容上则以平民百姓日常使用的语言描绘大自然的景色和处身于大自然中的人们的生活，抒发了诗人的感受和沉思，开创了探索和发掘人的内心世界的现代诗风。

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is edited with a note on the text by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Classics.

Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale'. Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's naive optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of nature.

This Penguin Classics edition allows readers to recapture the full impact and power of Lyrical Ballads. It also includes a note on the history of the text by Michael Schmidt.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted, and his position, along with that of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.

If you enjoyed the Lyrical Ballads, you might like Wordsworth's Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.

作者简介

Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted,and his position, along with Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.

Michael Schmidt is Professor of English and Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of the critical history LIVES OF THE POETS (1999), THE STORY OF POETRY (five volumes, 2001-), and THE FIRST POETS: LIVES OF THE ANCIENT GREEK POETS.