马修·阿诺德对威廉·华兹华斯的评价浅析

A Master of Applying Profound Ideas to Life: Matthew Arnold's Criticism on William Wordsworth

马修·阿诺德根据"诗歌即人生批评"的诗学理念,给出了威廉·华兹华斯在其诗人排行榜上的显赫位置。阿诺德提出,华兹华斯的卓越之处,不仅在于其能把思想崇高而深刻地运用到生活中,而且在于其师法自然、质朴无华的创作风格。同时,华兹华斯之所以还未被公众所广泛认可,主要是存在影响其声誉的三大障碍:良莠不齐的诗作堆积;不拘常理的排列标准;虚无缥缈的哲学体系。要让华兹华斯的价值得以展现,就必须消除这些障碍。

Based on his theory among the top poets both in of ＂ the criticism of life＂ , Matthew Arnold England and in Europe. He points out that ranks William Wordsworth Wordsworth excels in his plain style, his appreciation of the joys offered in nature and his ＂ noble and profound application of ideas to life＂ . In the meantime, three obstacles hinder or delay Wordsworth＇s due recognition： his first-rate poems are mingled with inferior ones; his poems are classified according to bad arrangement; and his philosophic doctrine has no poetic truth. Therefore, to get Wordsworth recognized by the public, these obstacles must be cleared.