Through the Tranquility of the Moonlight: New Translations and Essays on Yeats's Poems

About This Novel

Yeats, whose creative career lasted for more than half a century, is a figure who connects the past and the future in the history of modern Western literature. He inherited the legacy of his Romantic ancestors and continued an eternal imaginative tradition with diligent and pious creations. He built his own complete and rigorous symbolic system. He is also regarded as the founder of modernist literature. The huge figure that emerged from many famous works has attracted the attention of countless later generations of poets. The symbolist Yeats was also a profound researcher of philosophy and history. His philosophical poems are famous for their mysterious and obscure style. Although there are many Chinese translations, for most readers, the feeling of reading them is still like a fog. The writing of this book was also initiated by the curiosity to penetrate the author's deep meaning and truly understand a poem. It took four years to complete. The careful reading and study are like a process of turning clouds and seeing the moon. The book compiles 100 representative poems by Yeats from various periods. It is arranged in Chinese first and then English, and more than 60 of them are interpreted in detail line by line (there are more than 30 poems that are not annotated and are left blank for readers to practice). After studying first-hand materials such as Yeats's poems and prose, and gaining a clear understanding of his philosophical thoughts and symbolic system, the author conducts a detailed textual analysis of the poems from a perspective close to the author's, and uses appropriate language translation and interpretation in order to provide a book that can both This annotated version of Yeats's poems, which shows the overview of Yeats's ideological system and poetic creation, and is rich in details and depth, allows ordinary readers to understand the essence of his masterpieces just like poetry researchers, and to read between the lines to his inner dreamland, starting a journey through the tranquility of the moonlight.

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