Keats and the Struggle-for-Existence Tradition
Keats and the Struggle-for-Existence Tradition
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济慈与生存斗争传统
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10.2307/459672
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发表时间：
1949
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H. N. Fairchild
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H. N. Fairchild
济慈在1818年3月25日写给约翰·汉密尔顿·雷诺兹的信中，除了几句话外，其余的都是诗文，是半病态的诙谐和半愤世嫉俗的严肃的混合体。在67-85行中，济慈试图解释他奇怪的心情，他宣称他觉得有义务在诗歌中“哲学化”，但还“不敢”这样做，他担心自己永远无法这样做，也不希望这样做，因为“这会破坏夜莺的歌声”。这种“感觉”和“思想”之间的冲突，对于济慈的学生来说，已经是老生常谈了。然而，从来没有人充分强调，在结束语中，真正“破坏了夜莺的歌唱”的不是道德哲学，而是一种如此悲观的自然哲学，以至于它禁止任何希望将感性的爱美与有益的仁慈的宇宙观协调起来。
The verse-epistle comprising all but a few sentences of the letter which Keats wrote to John Hamilton Reynolds on March 25, 1818, is a mixture of half-morbid jocularity and half-cynical seriousness. In lines 67–85 Keats tries to explain his strange mood by declaring that he feels the obligation to “philosophize” in poetry, does not yet “dare” to do so, fears that he never will be able to do so, and does not really wish to do so because “It spoils the singing of the Nightingale.” This conflict between “sensation” and “thought” is an old story to students of Keats. It has never been sufficiently emphasized, however, that in the concluding verse-paragraph what really “spoils the singing of the Nightingale” turns out to be not moral philosophy, but natural philosophy of so pessimistic a kind that it forbids any hope of harmonizing the sensuous love of beauty with a helpfully benevolistic view of the universe.