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作品:The Defence of Poetry 作者:菲利普·西德尼 字数: 下载本书  举报本章节错误/更新太慢

    Footnote:

    {1}  Edton, elder brotton.  ed by Elizabetroller of her household.

    Observe treatise ten t in plain, manly Englis Euprictly reasoned.

    {2}  roduction ends, and t begins s Part 1.  Poetry t Light-giver.

    {3}  A fable from t;amyt; of Laurentius Abstemius, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under tificate of Alexander VI. (1492-1503).

    {4}  Pliny says (quot;Nat. .,quot; lib. xi., cap. 62) t tient to be born, break ther, and so kill her.

    {5}  Part 2.  Borrowed from by Philosophers.

    {6}  timaeus, tias are represented by Plato as ened to tes on a Republic.  Socrates calls on to sate in action.  Critias ell of t citizens of Attica, 10,000 years before, from an inroad of countless invaders lantis, in tern Ocean; a struggle of  Sais, in Egypt, and radition to Critias.  But first timaeus agrees to expound tructure of tias, in a piece left unfiniso, proceeds to sy in action against pressure of a danger t seems irresistible.

    {7}  Platos quot;Republic,quot; book ii.

    {8}  Part 3.  Borrowed from by orians.

    {9}  Part 4.  ic.

    {10}  Part 5.  And really sacred and propic in the Psalms of David.

    {11}  Part 6.  By ts were he name of Makers.

    {12}  Poetry is tive art.  Astronomers and ot hey find.

    {13}  Poets improve Nature.

    {14}  And idealize man.

    {15}   of the Essay begins.

    {16}  Part 1.  Poetry defined.

    {17}  Part 2.  Its kinds.  a. Divine.

    {18} Poo imitative.

    {19} Marcus Manilius e under tiberius a metrical treatise on Astronomy, of wars remain.

    {20}  Poetry proper.  {21}  Part 3.  Subdivisions of Poetry proper.

    {22}  Its essence is in t, not in apparelling of verse.

    {23}  ricca, in tury.  ory of t;AEt; ic tale in Greek ed into English.

    {24}  ts ork and Parts.  Part 1. ORK:   Poetry does for us.

    {25}  t;Sucal souls; But ure of decay Dot in,  .quot; (S;Merc of Venice,quot; act v., sc. 1) {26}  Poetry best advances tuous action.

    {27}  Its advantage herein over Moral Philosophy.

    {28}  Its advantage ory.

    {29}  quot;All men make faults, and even I in trespass ; S;Sonnetquot; 35.

    {30}  quot;itness of times, ligrutress of life, messenger of antiquity.quot;--Cicero, quot;De Oratore.quot;

    {31}  In  goes beyond Porian, and all oting comparison he Divine).

    {32}  he Philosopher.

    {33}  ;Ars Poetica,quot; lines 372-3.  But e quot;Non ;--quot;Neittered columns ted mediocrity in poets.quot;

    {34}  t;Locus communis,quot; erm used in old roric to represent testimonies or pitences of good aut be used for strengt said Keckermann, ext- book in t;Because it is impossible to read t give students of eloquence  form of books of Common Places, like t collected by Stobaeus out of Cicero, Seneca, terence, Aristotle; but especially titled Polyant and effective sentences apt to any matter.quot;  Frequent resort to tation to be erm of roric, quot;a common- place,quot; came to mean a good saying made familiar by incessant quoting, and trite saying good or bad, but commonly   in it.

    {35}  totle.  t;Poeticsquot; runs:

    quot;It is not by ing in verse or prose t torian and Poet are distinguisus mig it ill be a species of ory, no less re t.  tinguis tes ry is more p tory, for Poetry is c about general trutory about particular. In ain cer , probably or necessarily, t of Poetry, even icular names. But rut;

    {36}  Justinus, ome of tory of trogus Pompeius, us.

    {37}  Dares Po  of Vulcan, o ime of AElian, A.D. 230, o be older than homers.

    {38}  Quintus Curtius, a Roman orian of uncertain date, ory of Alexander t in ten books, of  and otive.

    {39}  Not kno practice.

    {40}  t Monarch of all human Sciences.

    {41}  In quot;Loves Labours Lostquot; a resemblance ion of Biron, and t:- quot;ongue--conceits expositor - Delivers in suc and gracious  aged ears play truant at ables, And younger e ravis and voluble is ;

    {42}  Virgils quot;AEneid,quot; Book xii.:- quot;And sed dastard turnus flying vie so vile a to die?quot; (Pranslation [1573].) {43}  Instances of ts work.

    {44}  Defectuous.  t;defectueux,quot; is used t;Apologie for Poetrie.quot;

    {45}  Part II.  tS of Poetry.

    {46}  Can Pastoral be condemned?

    {47}  ting glory.

    {48}  Or Elegiac?

    {49}  Or Iambic? or Satiric?

    {50}  From t Satire of Persius, line 116, in a description of ire:

    quot;Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit,quot; amp;c.

    Soucranslated t;Unlike in mety ing grace Laug  vice ickle,  made te passes w;

    {51}  From tles (Lib. 1):

    quot;Coelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt, Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere.  Quod petis, , Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.quot;

    t not toil in laboured idleness, and seek to live at ease iteams.  t o be calm and clear.

    quot;At Ulubraequot;  to saying in t corner of ttle totle Pedlington.  to t a grander form in Sartor Resartus:

    quot;May  say t tual enfranc is even this?

    ruggling and inexpressibly languiso  enouger, t your America is uation t  its duty, its ideal, ,  out therefrom, believe, live, and be free.

    Fool! t too is in tion is but tuff t to s same Ideal out of.   matter  or t, so t be ic?  O t pinest in t of tual, and criest bitterly to to rule and create, knorut is already  t;

    {52}  Or Comic?

    {53}  In pistrinum.  In the pounding-mill (usually worked by horses or asses).

    {54}  Or tragic?

    {55}  ts first form.

    {56}  Or the heroic?

    {57}  Epistles I. ii. 4.  Better tor.  tle stoic, Crantor t commentator upon Plato.

    {58}  Summary of t thus far.

    {59}  Objections stated and met.

    {60}  Cornelius Agrippas book, quot;De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum et Artium,quot;  publis;Moriae Encomiumquot; ten in a  in a feions.

    {61}  tion to rre.

    {62}  t of tences is from le I. xviii. 69):

    quot;Fly from tive man, for ;  t;; seems to be varied from Ovid (Fasti, iv. 311):- quot;Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.quot;

    A mind conscious of rig t towards vice we are a credulous crowd.

    {63}  tions.

    {64}  t time migter spent.

    {65}  Beg tion.

    {66}  t poetry is ther of lies.

    {67}  t poetry is ting us on and pestilent desires.

    {68}  Rampire, rampart, t;rempart,quot; ;rempar,quot; from quot;remparer,quot; to fortify.

    {69}  quot;I give o be foolis;  A variation from t. I. i. 63), quot;Quid facias illi? jubeas miserum esse libenter.quot;

    {70}  t Plato baniss from his ideal Republic.

    {71}  y certain barbarous and insipid ers  into meaning t poets o be t out of a state.

    {72}  Ion is a r, in dialogue es, and  s floly ; says Socrates; quot;your talent in expounding  an art acquired by system and met s besides.  It is a special gift, imparted to you by Divine poion. true of t you expound.   spring from art, system, or met is a special gift emanating from tion of t is lig compose verses at all so long as ake auting in place of it tion and special impulse . . . Like props and deliverers of oracles, ts aken as of t is not t of trains, it is to us, and speaks t;  George Grote, from e translation of t;Ionquot; among to.

    {73}  Guards, trimmings or facings.

    {74}  the Second Summary.

    {75}  Causes of Defect in Englisry.

    {76}  From tion at t;Muse, bring to my mind t divinity  one famous for piety s;

    {77}  tal, born in 1505, ical services ( of France, and long labour to repress civil  skill in verse.  he died in 1573.

    {78}  -strings titan (Prometened ter clay.  (Juvenal, Sat. xiv. 35).  Dryden translated ts context -

    quot;Some sons, indeed, some very fe;

    {79}  tor is made, t born.

    {80}   you  t comes.

    {81}  quot;ever I sry to e ;  Sidney quotes from memory, and adapts to ext, tristium IV. x. 26.

    quot;Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos, Et quod temptabam dicere, versus erat.quot;

    {82}  ;itsquot; ; t;itsquot; not being yet introduced into Englising.

    {83}  Defects in t s tten y years old, and S seventeen,  yet come to London.  trongest of S yet begun to e for tage.  Marlo ten; and trengt o come of t to be shown.

    {84}  tage.

    {85}  Messenger.

    {86}  From the egg.

    {87}  Bias, slope; Frenc;biais.quot;

    {88}  Juvenal, Sat. iii., lines 152-3.  ;London:quot;

    quot;Of all t rest, Sure t bitter is a scornful jest.quot;

    {89}  George Bacy-six) ten in earlier life four Latin tragedies,  Bordeaux, aigne in his class.

    {90}  Defects in Lyric Poetry.

    {91}  Defects in Diction.  tten only a year or ter tion of quot;Eup; represents t style of t created but represented by t took t;Eup;

    {92}  Nizolian paper-books, are commonplace books of quotable passages, so called because an Italian grammarian, Marius Nizolius, born at Bersello in teentury, and one of teent producers of sucribution ionary of p;tus Linguae Latinae e scriptis tullii Ciceronis collectus.quot;

    {93}  quot;o te, nay, comes to te,quot; amp;c.

    {94}  Pounded.  Put in tray.

    {95}  Capacities of the English Language.

    {96}  Metre and Rhyme.

    {97}  Last Summary and playful peroration