传承与超越——试论本·琼生《森林集》中的古典主义

Tradition and Transcendence——A Study on Classicism of Ben Jonson's The Forrest

本·琼生是英国文艺复兴时期最典型的古典主义诗人。《森林集》既体现本·琼生对古典主义传统的继承与发扬,又表达对这一传统的超越甚至颠覆。这种矛盾的态度反映本·琼生并不是一个传统守旧的古典主义卫道士,而是一个古典主义思想家,更是一个勇于创新的基督教人文主义者,主张从古典主义和基督教人文主义的双重视角关注人性、考察人性。

Ben Jonson is the most typical classical poet in English Renaissance Period. But The Forrest shows that Ben Jonson inherits and develops the classical tradition on the one hand,and transcends and subverts it on the other hand. This paradoxical attitude reveals that Ben Jonson is not a passive classical moralist. He is a truly classical thinker,but more an enterprising Christian humanist,who proposes to explore human and humanity from the double perspectives of Classicism and Christian humanism.