在二十世纪早期英语世界关于中国诗歌翻译的画卷上,《松花笺》(Fir-flower Tablets:Poems from the Chinese)毫无疑问是浓墨重彩的一笔。1921年该书首次出版,引起了强烈的反响,并享有较高的评价,其后又被译成法文在巴黎出版。曾有一位名为孔泰利(音译)的旅美华人在收到译者洛厄尔寄给他的译诗后,立即 Fir-flower Tablets: Poems from the Chinese is undoubtedly one of the best in the early twentieth-century English-language world about the translation of Chinese poetry. The book was first published in 1921, aroused strong repercussions and enjoyed a high rating, which was later translated into French for publication in Paris. Once there was a Chinese-American known as Contelli, who immediately received the translator’s poems sent to him by Lowell,