ELECTRIC LIGHT: POEMS
Book ID/图书代码： 04560013B65402
English Summary/英文概要： Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet’s childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding - whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry.
Electric Light ranges from short takes (’glosses’) to conversation poems whose cunning passagework gives rein to ’the must and drift of talk’; other poems are arranged in sections, their separate cargoes docked alongside each other to reveal a hidden and curative connection. The presocratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the fixities of remembrance: elegising friends and fellow poets, naming ’the real names’ of contemporaries behind the Shakespearean roles they played at school. These gifts of recollection renew the poet’s calling to assign to things their proper names. The resulting poems are full of delicately prescriptive tonalities, where Heaney can be heard extending his word-hoard and rollcall in this, his eleventh collection.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《电灯光》是诺贝尔文学奖得主希尼的第11部诗集，2001年出版，主要收集的是他1995年获诺贝尔奖之后几年的作品。薄薄一本诗集几乎包括了所有诗歌体裁：抒情诗、哀歌、十四行、歌谣、史诗、翻译、沉思性的组诗等，贯穿始终的主题则是诗人对过去的回忆，在或明或暗的光照下，显现奇迹和质感。希尼用他一贯的个人视角，咀嚼生活中喜悦或哀痛的片段，点点滴滴，亲切感人，毫无姿态。在个人生活的坚实基础上，更把视野拓宽到爱尔兰的泥沼、政治现实和文学传统的广阔天地之间，在诗艺上达到了出神入化的境界，开启了他晚期诗歌的新气象。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 谢默斯·希尼（Seamus Heaney，1939年4月13日-2013年8月30日），爱尔兰诗人。生于爱尔兰北部德里郡毛斯邦县一个虔信天主教、世代务农的家庭。希尼不仅是诗人，还是一位诗学专家。1995年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他的诺贝尔奖演讲《归功于诗》（Crediting Poetry，1996）也是一篇重要诗论。他还写过一个剧本。希尼把古英语史诗《贝奥武夫》（Beowulf，2000）译成现代英语，轰动一时。是公认的当今世界最好的英语诗人和天才的文学批评家。希尼自小接受正规的英国教育，1961年以第一名的优异成绩毕业于英国女王大学英文系。毕业后当过一年中学教师，同时大量阅读爱尔兰和英国的现代诗歌，从中寻找将英国文学传统和德里郡乡间生活经历结合起来的途径。1966年，以诗集《一位自然主义者之死》一举成名。1966年到1972年，希尼在母校任现代文学讲师，亲历了北爱尔兰天主教徒为争取公民权举行示威而引起的暴乱。2013年8月30日，爱尔兰诗人谢默斯·希尼逝世，终年74岁。Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations - including Beowulf (1999) - which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Human Chain was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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