George?。牵椋螅螅椋睿?/p>
今天我讀了莎翁名作《暴風(fēng)雨》……有很多理由讓我慶幸自己出生于英格蘭,這其中很重要的一點(diǎn)是因?yàn)槲夷苡米约旱哪刚Z閱讀莎士比亞。若是設(shè)想自己不能面對面地去認(rèn)識他,而只能聆聽他那遙遠(yuǎn)的聲音,并且是一種需經(jīng)一番苦苦思索才能觸動心靈的聲音,那我一定會感到心灰意冷。我常常這樣想,我可以讀懂荷馬,而且可以肯定地說,假如有誰能欣賞荷馬的作品,那一定就是我了;可是,能否夢想,哪怕是一閃念間的夢想,我能完全領(lǐng)悟荷馬那優(yōu)美動聽的聲音嗎?我能像當(dāng)初在古希臘海灘上漫步的古希臘人那樣,領(lǐng)會他詩篇里的每一個字眼嗎?我知道,越過那遙遠(yuǎn)的時空,傳到我耳邊的只不過是一個隱隱約約而又?jǐn)鄶嗬m(xù)續(xù)的回聲;我也知道,這微弱的回聲,若不是融匯著那遠(yuǎn)古世界燦爛的光輝,熔鑄著那富有青春活力的記憶,那它將會更加微弱。讓每個國度都為它的詩人感到欣慰吧,因?yàn)樵娙司鸵馕吨@國度本身,詩人就是這國度的偉大和甜蜜所在,詩人就是人們生死與共的,難以言表的珍貴遺產(chǎn)。當(dāng)我合上書時,絲絲愛戴和崇敬久久縈繞在我心中。我是全心身去擁抱這位偉大而神秘的大師,還是投入那因他而魅力無窮的島嶼?我不得而知。因?yàn)槲覠o法將大師與島嶼分開。正是那無與倫比的偉大的聲音在我心中所喚起的“愛戴”和“崇敬”,早已將莎士比亞和英格蘭融為一體了。
Shakespeare's Island From Private Papersof Henry Ryecroft
TO-DAY I have read The Tempest. . . Among the many reasons which make me glad to have been born in England, one of the first is that I read Shakespeare in my mother tongue. If I try to imagine myself as one who cannot know him face to face, who hears him only speaking from afar, and that in accents which only through the laboring intelligence can touch the living soul, there comes upon me a sense of chill discouragement, of dreary deprivation. I am wont to think that I can read Homer, and, assuredly, if any man enjoys him, it is I; but can I for a moment dream that Homer yields me all his music, that his word is to me as to him who walked by the Hellenic shore when Hellas lived? I know that there reaches me across the vast of time no more than a faint and broken echo; I know that it would be fainter still, but for its blending with those memories of youth which are as a glimmer of the world's primeval glory. Let every land have joy of its poet; for the poet is the land itself, all its greatness and its sweetness, all that incommunicable heritage for which men live and die. As I close the book, love and reverence possess me. Whether does my full heart turn to the great Enchanter, or to the Island upon which he has laid his spell? I know not. I cannot think of them apart. In the love and reverence awakened by that voice of voices, Shakespeare and England are but one.