Running to paradise : Yeats's poetic art
Running to paradise : Yeats's poetic art
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奔向天堂:叶芝的诗意艺术
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10.5860/choice.31-4235
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1994
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M. Rosenthal
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作者：
M. Rosenthal
在《奔向天堂》一书中，被《泰晤士报文学副刊》誉为“20世纪最重要的诗歌评论家之一”的M.L.罗森塔尔带领我们了解了本世纪最伟大的英语诗人的抒情诗和诗剧。他的阅读为叶芝对传统的大胆运用、他的爱情诗，以及他面对革命和内战等悲剧现实的方式，提供了新的、生动的视角。《奔向天堂》描述了叶芝的全部努力——有时夹杂着狂野的幽默——以高度诗意的完整性，表达他对自己的生活和混乱时代的热情感受。罗森塔尔自己也是一位著名的诗人，他强调叶芝的艺术和心理上的坦率。这本书涵盖了他早期精美的抒情诗和植根于民间传说的戏剧，到思想更强硬、更自白的成熟作品（包括《塔》的崇高成就），然后是他最后几年有时“疯狂”但往往辉煌的悲剧或喜剧作品。罗森塔尔大量引用叶芝的话，描绘了这位诗人面对人生重大问题时日益凝聚的力量：他的艺术需求，他对一个女人持久但无望的爱情，52岁时与另一个女人结婚的复杂性，以及他在爱尔兰“麻烦”期间的痛苦。叶芝对女性情感，对历史和人类思想的循环，对超自然主义和“死者”的深刻吸收也在其中发挥了重要作用。
In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeats's whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of his chaotic era. Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the sublime achievement of The Tower), and then to the sometimes "mad" yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years. Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues: his art's demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his distress during Ireland's "Troubles." Yeats's deep absorption in female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and in supernaturalism and "the dead" comes strongly into play as well.