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中国诗歌和英国读者的邂逅可以追溯到1589年《诗艺》一书的出版。作者乔治·普腾汉在书中探讨了中国菱形诗歌以及他翻译的两首中国诗。1761年,托马斯·珀西英译的中国小说《好逑传》的问世是早期中国古诗英译的重要事件。该书附录中有关中国诗歌的片段记录了译诗之缘、译诗之难及他的汉诗之论。然而,英语世界较为全面、系统地译介中国古诗的著述应数德庇时于1829年出版的《汉文诗解》。该书不仅探讨了中国的诗法、风格、神韵、意象、诗情、分类等,还翻译了许多名不见经传的诗。英国人对中国经典诗歌的认识是从《诗经》开始的。理雅各三个版本的英译《诗经》推进了中国经典诗歌的翻译,引发了《诗经》翻译及其研究的热潮。如果说《诗经》翻译是作为一部经典传递中国的思想,那么,1898年,翟里斯的译作《古今诗选》荟萃了李白、杜甫等中国著名诗人的名篇佳作,使英国读者得以品鉴中国主流诗作的文学艺术价值。翟里斯,作为一位谙熟中国的饱学之士,以这样一种方式把对中国古诗的英译和研究推进到一个新的阶段。
The encounter between Chinese poetry and British readers goes back to the publication of Poetic Art in 1589. In his book, George Puthang explored the Chinese diamond poetry and two Chinese poems that he translated. In 1761, the advent of the Chinese version of “Good Biography” by Thomas Percy was an important event in the early English translation of ancient Chinese poetry. The appendix of the poem about Chinese poetry records the edge of the translated poem, the difficulty of translating poems and the theory of his Chinese poem. However, the English-speaking world is more comprehensive and systematic translation of the Chinese poetry published in 1829 should be written in German poetry interpretation. The book not only explores China’s poetry, style, charm, imagery, poetry, classification, but also translated many unknown poems. The British people’s understanding of Chinese classical poetry started from The Book of Songs. The three versions of Richard’s English translation The Book of Poetry promoted the translation of Chinese classical poetry and triggered the craze for the translation and study of the Book of Poetry. If we say that the translation of the Book of Songs serves as a classic to convey Chinese thoughts, then in 1898, Zhai Lisi’s translation of ancient and modern poetry anthologies brought together famous Chinese poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu to make them tasteable Literary and Artistic Value of Chinese Mainstream Poems. Zhai Lisi, a knowledgeable Chinese who has learned a great deal from it, has taken such a way that the translation and study of ancient Chinese poems are advanced to a new stage.