英国运动派诗歌再审视

British Movement Poetry Reconsidered

20世纪50年代运动派的出现标志着英国诗歌步入了一个新的时代,"外来的"现代主义诗歌独霸英国诗坛的局面从此被打破,由于运动派诗人的努力,战后的英国诗歌接续了被现代主义中断的英国诗歌传统,英国诗歌确立了新的发展方向,因此运动派被许多批评家认为是20世纪后半叶英国最重要的诗歌流派。运动派对英国诗歌的突出贡献在于,它继承了英国诗歌的伟大传统,突出了英国的文化特性;它贴近生活,反思生活,对战后的英国社会和文化具有较高的认识价值;它十分关注作者与读者之间的关系,在某种程度上恢复了曾一度被现代主义诗歌割断的作者与读者的关系。当然,运动派诗歌有一定的局限。运动派诗歌在对待外国文学方面不够开明,运动派诗歌放弃写大题材,他们的作品很少有浪漫主义诗歌那样的震撼人心的作品,也没有现代主义诗歌的思想深度和气势。即便如此,运动派诗歌给英国诗歌留下了丰厚的遗产,值得深入研究。

The emergence of the Movement poetry in the 1950s, represented by English poets such as Philip Larkin, marked a new era of post-war British poetry. Arguably the most important literary trend in the second half of the twentieth century, the Movement made a great contribution to contemporary British poetry. First, it resumed the English line of poetry once interrupted by ＂foreign＂ modernism and inherited English cultural tradition. Second, it held up a mirror to postwar British society and its values. Third, it reaffirmed the link between authorship and readership, which modernist writers tended to sever. Though somewhat limited in vision for excluding foreign influences and rejecting grand subject matters, the Movement has left an enduring legacy that merits in-depth study.