Academic doodle / Auden's light body poetry collection

Author: Auden
Translator: Sang Ke
Publisher:
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Due to the depth and breadth of Auden's poetry, the translation is challenging. Prominent figures such as Mu Dan, Bian Zhilin, Wang Zuoliang, and Yang Xianyi have all produced excellent individual translations, but to date, no collection of Auden's poems or other works has been officially published in China. This is a glaring gap. This book is the first officially published collection of Auden's poems in China. Academic Follies is a humorous and satirical collection of light verse about famous figures by Auden in his later years. Light verse is a very important type of poetry in the tradition of English poetry and has recently garnered attention from the Chinese poetry and criticism circles. Academic Follies, which Auden began writing in 1952 and completed in 1970, was published the following year. The collection features many famous figures, such as Dante, Blake, Goethe, Browning, Bridges, Greaves, Hardy, Herbert, Mallarmé, Milton, Pope, Valéry, Wilde, Yeats, and Eliot, among others. Additionally, it includes writers, politicians, queens, musicians, doctors, philosophers, bishops, and others—all world-renowned personalities. A blend of wit, humor, and poetry, Auden's Academic Follies is not only meticulously rhymed but also employs a variety of rhetorical devices, with puns being particularly abundant. Many implied meanings require careful attention while reading. To appreciate its subtleties, not only does the reader need linguistic and poetic cultivation but also a certain kind of insight. Due to the depth and breadth of Auden's poetry, the translation is challenging. Prominent figures such as Mu Dan, Bian Zhilin, Wang Zuoliang, and Yang Xianyi have all produced excellent individual translations, but to date, no collection of Auden's poems or other works has been officially published in China. This is a glaring gap. This book is the first officially published collection of Auden's poems in China. Academic Follies is a humorous and satirical collection of light verse about famous figures by Auden in his later years. Light verse is a very important type of poetry in the tradition of English poetry and has recently garnered attention from the Chinese poetry and criticism circles. Academic Follies, which Auden began writing in 1952 and completed in 1970, was published the following year. The collection features many famous figures, such as Dante, Blake, Goethe, Browning, Bridges, Greaves, Hardy, Herbert, Mallarmé, Milton, Pope, Valéry, Wilde, Yeats, and Eliot, among others. Additionally, it includes writers, politicians, queens, musicians, doctors, philosophers, bishops, and others—all world-renowned personalities. A blend of wit, humor, and poetry, Auden's Academic Follies is not only meticulously rhymed but also employs a variety of rhetorical devices, with puns being particularly abundant. Many implied meanings require careful attention while reading. To appreciate its subtleties, not only does the reader need linguistic and poetic cultivation but also a certain kind of insight.