|
选自约翰·梅西的《文学史纲》,这本书读起来挺使人愉快……
据说译林出了弥尔顿《欢乐颂与沉思颂》?像弥尔顿这样能代表一个时代的诗人起码也要有几十个版本才对。
发一首著名的:
On Shakespeare
What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, [ 5 ]
What need'st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu'd Book,
Those Delphick lines with deep impression took,
Then thou our fancy of it self bereaving,
Dost make us Marble with too much conceaving;
And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie,
That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
[Poetry & Proses by Milton]
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton ... ontents/index.shtml |
|