我一直设想着一场有关奥登的讨论:在一个从没读过奥登1940年之后作品的人与另一个从没读过他1940年之前作品的人之间。在最初的赞同——以“才能全面”、“行文流畅”、“时而尖锐”诸如此类的形容词——之后,一条令人疑惑的裂缝将在他们之间开裂,其中一个人在说一位令人极其兴奋的英国的社会诗人,充满着精力充沛的非文学的粗糙以及独树一帜的清晰的措辞,而另一个人则在说一位迷人的书生气的美国天才,过于喋喋 I have always imagined a discussion of Auden: between a man who has never read Oden’s post-1940s and another who has never read his pre-1940 works. After the initial approval of “adjectives” such as “fullness”, “smooth writing”, “sometimes sharpness” and the like, a puzzling crack will crack between them, one of whom To say that an extremely excited British social poet is full of energetic, non-literary rough and distinctive, clear wording, while the other is talking about an enchanting book angry American genius too blabbering