悼亡诗是中国抒情诗的一个重要类别。自《诗经》以来,悼念亡妻已成为中国诗歌的一个传统,留下了许多感人肺腑的诗篇。可是,这一抒情诗品类在西方诗坛却未形成自己独立的支脉。在西方诗库中悼念亡妻之诗可谓凤毛麟角。弥尔顿曾作过一首无题的十四行诗缅怀第二个妻子卡特琳,算是开了西方悼亡诗(本文专指缅怀亡妻的诗作)的先河。但是弥尔顿的这首悼亡诗与我国 Mournful poetry is an important category of Chinese lyric poetry. Since the Book of Songs, the memory of the deceased wife has become a tradition of Chinese poetry, leaving many touching poems. However, this lyric poem category in Western poetry has not formed its own independent branch. In western poetry mourning wife’s poem can be described as extremely rare. Milton had made a Untitled sonnet in memory of his second wife, Catherine, as the forerunner of the Western memorial poetry. But Milton’s first poem of mourning and our country