开山之作(2):华莱士·史蒂文斯之《簧风琴》

• 作 者: 沧来
• 出 处: 大学英语
• 发表日期: 2014年04期
• 关键词: 史蒂文斯 现代派诗歌 哈特福德 艺术实践 叙事性 康涅狄格州 Wallace Stevens imaginary representing

华莱士·史蒂文斯就读于哈佛大学及纽约法学院,大半生在康涅狄格州的哈特福德度过,供职于一家保险公司。他的诗多为夜晚或上下班途中写就。他的第一本诗集《簧风琴》不同凡响,是大器晚成之作——诗人44年生活与艺术实践的结晶。如今《簧风琴》已被公认为现代派诗歌最骄人的成就之一,但它得到充分认可却是史蒂文斯晚年的事情。《簧风琴》的不同寻常之处还在于它完全是抒情性的而非叙事性的,将单纯、理性、富于哲理的思想与充满想象的“胡

Wallace Stevens attended Harvard University and New York Law School, spent most of his life in Hartford, Connecticut, working for an insurance company. His poems are mostly written at night or on the way to get off work. His first collection of poems ”Reed organ“ extraordinary, is a late bloomer - poet 44 years of life and the crystallization of artistic practice. Today the ”melodeon“ has been recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of modernist poetry, but it is fully recognized Stevens’s later years. The unusual thing about the ”reed organ“ is that it is entirely lyrical rather than narrative, combining simple, rational, philosophical thought with imaginative ”Hu"