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。本文从他的诗集中选取了一些重要的作品，并对这些作品的背景进行了考察，特别注意了他的书信和生平。我还研究了诗人的手稿在拉金档案分析的话，押韵和诗歌形式，阐明他的工作突出的文体特征。这项研究导致了1997年发表的一篇文章“拉金式歧义”。本文重点介绍“婚礼风”和"阿伦德尔墓“。文章认为，这些诗歌通过使用模棱两可的词语“离题”和“谎言”来探索恋爱中人们的微妙感情。我在这里也提出，这些诗中所揭示的对女性的暧昧感情，以一种相当讽刺的方式，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》，这本书主要关注现代诗歌。我在这里的讨论是建立在对所选诗歌的仔细阅读的基础上的。在某些章节中，我脱离了先前的批评，试图阐明诗歌背后紧密结合的、迄今为止被忽视的语言结构。因为拉金的生平细节似乎常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一点，除了我在书中所涉及的诗歌外，我现在还在研究叶芝和拉金的其他作品，并集中研究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.