Signet Classics:匙河集（100周年版） Spoon River Anthology:100th Anniversary Edition

基本信息

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Signet (2007年 7月 3日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

简装 ‏ : ‎ 336页

ISBN ‏ : ‎ 978-0451530585

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 187 g

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 2.13 x 17.02 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

1915 年，埃德加·李·马斯特斯 (Edgar Lee Masters) 出版了一本用自由诗写成的戏剧独白书，内容是关于一个名为勺河 (Spoon River) 的虚构小镇，以他长大的中西部小镇为背景。 勺子河的惊天丑闻和秘密悲剧立即被读者认定为真实的。 马斯特斯将在村庄墓地“睡在山上”的死者复活，讲述他们生活的真相，他们的证词推翻了美国小镇生活道德优越的神话。 勺子河与这座大城市一样无可否认地腐败和残酷，是罪犯、酒鬼、不诚实的银行家、好色之徒、苦毒的妻子、虐待丈夫、失败的梦想家和一些善良灵魂的家园。 《勺河选集》这部杰作的新鲜感丝毫未减，仍然是美国文学的里程碑。

In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. Masters raises the dead “sleeping on the hill” in their village cemetery to tell the truth about their lives, and their testimony topples the American myth of the moral superiority of small-town life. Spoon River, as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, is home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives, abusive husbands, failed dreamers, and a few good souls. The freshness of this masterpiece undiminished, Spoon River Anthology remains a landmark of American literature.

作者简介

年轻时，埃德加·李·马斯特斯（Edgar Lee Masters，1869-1950 年）反抗他所认为的虚伪的小镇生活，前往芝加哥，在那里从事了三十年的法律工作。 在开始他的杰作《勺河选集》（Spoon River Anthology，1915）之前，他出版了十一本诗集、戏剧和散文集。 后来，马斯特斯、卡尔·桑德堡和瓦切尔·林赛在中西部以芝加哥为中心发起了一场诗意复兴。

约翰·霍兰德（John Hollander，1929-2013）是一位有名的美国诗人，也是耶鲁大学英语系斯特林名誉教授。 他的著作包括《光谱放射：新诗选》、《竖琴湖》、《时间与地点》、《蓝酒与其他诗歌》。 霍兰德还是许多批评著作的作者，包括《莱姆的理性：英语诗歌指南》。

罗纳德·普里莫 (Ronald Primeau) 是中央密歇根大学英语教授兼人文学科硕士主任。 他出版了有关埃德加·李·马斯特斯、赫伯特·W·马丁、美国高速公路文学和电视修辞学的书籍。 他编辑过有关马斯特斯、保罗·劳伦斯·邓巴和文学影响力动态的著作。

As a young man, Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) rebelled against what he believed to be the hypocrisy of small-town life and went to Chicago, where he practiced law for thirty years. He published eleven books of verses, plays, and essays before beginning his masterpiece, Spoon River Anthology (1915). Later, Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Vachel Lindsay initiated a poetic renaissance in the Midwest, with Chicago as its center.

John Hollander (1929–2013) was an acclaimed American poet and the Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale University. His books include Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems, Harp Lake, In Time and Place, and Blue Wine and Other Poems. Hollander was also the author of a number of critical works, including Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse.

Ronald Primeau is Professor of English and Director of the MA in Humanities at Central Michigan University. He has published books on Edgar Lee Masters, Herbert W. Martin, the literature of the American highway, and the rhetoric of television. He has edited works on Masters, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the dynamics of literary influence.