《抒情歌谣集》:华兹华斯说谎了吗?(英文)  

Did Wordsworth Lie about Lyrical Ballads?

作　　者：金圣中 詹姆斯.奥苏利文 

机构地区：[1]韩国东国大学

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2015年第3期95-107,共13页Foreign Literature Studies

摘　　要：有学者从新历史主义出发,认为华兹华斯在骨子里一直是保守的,包括他早期的《抒情歌谣集》也是如此,因此他在该诗集的序中声称这部诗集是一个文学实验,并不能支撑他去世之后被认为是一位政治激进诗人的声誉。这一立场肇始于罗伯特·马约的爆炸性观点。他认为,华兹华斯的诗歌并无新意,尤其是与当时的杂志上发表的诗歌相比较而言,所以诗人的表面声言并不足信。本文对这一怀疑主义观点提出反对,通过论证华兹华斯在序中宣称诗集作品的实验性时的真诚态度,重新肯定了华兹华斯在诗歌和政治上的诚实品格。本文借用阿多诺有关实验的观点,即实验是对未知的测试、对文艺史上某一时期尚未得到认可的技术手段的凸显,认为诗人在该诗集的序中针对诗歌的实验性所流露出来焦虑无疑是一种真诚流露,尤其是当我们认识到一点的时候,即:诗人的这一宣示是面对图书读者而非期刊读者。The aim of this essay is to reaffirm Wordsworth＇s literary and political integrity by proving the veracity of his claim that the poems in the Preface were experiments. It argues against the skepticism of the New Historicist position which holds that Wordsworth was always deeply conservative, even when considering his early work, Lyrical Ballads, and that, consequently, Wordsworth＇s claim that the Ballads is a literary experiment does nothing to guarantee his posthumous reputation as a poet with radical political ideas. This position on Wordsworth was compounded by Robert Mayo＇s groundbreaking argument that his poems are not new, especially if we compare them with the kind of poetry that was already being published in magazines, and thus the poet＇s claim can no longer be taken at face value. Theodor Adorno, however, views the meaning of experiment as a way of testing the unknown, a way of foregrounding unsanctioned technical procedures at a historical moment in literature as well as in music. Wordsworth＇s anxiety, shown in the Preface, about the experimental nature of these poems can be seen as genuine once we understand that he was addressing book readers, not magazine readers.

关 键 词：《抒情歌谣集》 华兹华斯 新历史主义 杂志诗歌 

分 类 号：I561.072[文学—其他各国文学]