英国维多利亚时代的诗人兼批评家阿诺德有一句名言:“使英国得以辉煌的事物中,没有一种堪与英国诗歌相比。”打开王佐良先生的《英国诗史》,我们可以强烈地感觉到阿诺德之言的分量。从古英语史诗《贝奥武甫》.到中古英语长诗《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》;从被誉为“英诗之父”的乔叟,到文艺复兴清晨时期的怀亚特、雪尼以及被奉为“诗人的诗人”的斯 There is a famous saying by Arnold, a British Victorian poet and critic: “None of the things that make Britain so brilliant is comparable to that of English poetry.” Turning on Mr. Wang Zuoliang’s “History of British Poetry” we can feel strongly The weight of Arnold’s words. From the ancient English epic “Beowufu” to medieval English long poem “Farmer Pierce of the illusion”; known as “the father of English poetry” Qiao Zhi, to the Renaissance early Wyatt, Sydney And Sri Lanka as “poet poet”