A Study of 20th Century English Poetry : Larkin and Others

我在这个项目中主要关注的是菲利普·拉金的诗歌。我从他的《诗集》中挑选了一些主要的作品，考察了这些作品的背景，特别是他的书信和传记。我还研究了拉金档案馆保存的诗人手稿，分析了词语、押韵和诗歌形式，以阐明他作品的突出文体特征。这项研究导致了1997年发表的一篇名为《拉金式歧义》的文章。本文以《婚礼之风》和《阿伦德尔墓》为研究对象。文章认为，这些诗歌通过使用深奥的讽刺词汇--拉威尔和谎言--来探索恋爱中人们的微妙情感。我在这里也认为，这些诗歌中揭示的对女性的模棱两可的感觉，以一种颇具讽刺意味的方式，呼应了拉金自己的经历。1998年，我出版了一本书，《英国诗歌的文体批评：韦茨、拉金和其他人》，这本书主要涉及现代诗歌。我在这里的讨论是建立在仔细阅读精选诗歌的基础上的。在一些章节中，我试图阐明诗歌背后紧密而迄今被忽视的语言结构，从而偏离了前面的批评。因为传记细节似乎经常影响对拉金作品的研究。我在分析他的诗歌时考虑到了这些因素。除了我书中涉及的诗歌之外，我现在还在研究叶芝和拉金的其他作品，并集中讨论这些诗人对押韵方案的使用。

My main concern in this project has been the poetry of Philip Larkin. I chose some of the major pieces from his Collected Poems and investigated the background of these works, paying special attention to his letters and biography. I also studied the poet's manuscripts held in the Larkin Archive analysing words, rhymes and poetic form to elucidate prominent stylistic features of his work. This study resulted in an article "Larkinesque Ambiguity" published in 1997. The article focuses on 'Wedding-Wind' and 'An Arundel Tomb'. It argues that these poems explore the delicate feelings of people in love through the use of profoundly quivocal words, 'ravel' and 'lie'. I aIso suggest here that the ambiguous feelings about women revealed in these poems echo, in a rather ironic fashion, Larkin's own experiences.In 1998 I published a book, Stylistic Criticism of English Poetry : Veats, Larkin and Others, which is primarily concerned with modern poetry. My discussion here is founded on close reading of selected poems. In some chapters I depart from previous criticism by trying to elucidate the close-knit and hitherto ignored, verbal structures underlying the poems. As biographical details often seem to impinge on study of Larkin's work. I took account of them in my analysis of his poetry.In addition to the poems dealt with in my book, I am now working on other pieces by Yeats and Larkin and am concentrating on these poets' use of rhyme schemes.