马修霍利斯这本引人入胜的新书主要讲述托马斯是如何从一位普通的散文作家成为一位杰出诗人的,去年在英国问世时赢得了两项传记奖,眼下即将在美国出版。作者霍利斯既是诗人也是编辑,他主要描写了托马斯在1917年去世之前最后五年的生活。
His book begins in London, where Thomas visits a new bookshop dedicated to poetry thathad just opened in shady Bloomsbury. Around this shop circled the poets that made upliterary London at that time: Ezra Pound, an American, who would greet startled visitors tohis flat in a purple dressing gown; W.B. Yeats, an Irish poet and playwright who shunnednewfangled electricity in favour of candlelight for his evening readings; and Rupert Brooke, adashing young English poet, who would die a soldier in 1915 from an infection caught whilestationed near Greece, and whose poetry sold 250,000 copies in the decade after his death.
书中的故事从伦敦开始。在树影婆娑的布鲁斯伯里,托马斯来到了一家新开的书店。在书店的墙上,到处都是诗集都出自当时伦敦文学界的主要诗人之手:其中包括美国诗人埃兹拉庞德他会穿着紫色的睡袍来接待公寓里的访客,让他们目瞪口呆;爱尔兰诗人兼剧作家 W.B. 叶芝他在晚上读书的时候喜欢就着烛光,而不用新潮的电灯照明;以及风度翩翩的年轻英国诗人鲁伯特布鲁克他曾是一名士兵,1915年驻扎在希腊附近时受到感染,败血症发作身亡而在他去世后的十年之内,他的诗集售出了25万册。
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