艾米莉·狄金森精选诗集 Emily Dickinson’Poems-Three Series 艾米莉·狄金森著 最经典英语文库

“*经典英语文库”第05辑又出版了15种。
它们是：
《艾米莉?狄金森精选诗集》
《爱伦?坡诗歌全集》
《巴黎圣母院》
《变形记》
《纯真年代》
《弗兰肯斯坦》
《浮士德》
《卢梭忏悔录》
《马丁·伊登》
《神曲?天堂篇》
《圣奥古斯丁忏悔录》
《为奴十二年》
《约翰?克里斯朵夫》第二卷
《追忆似水年华》
《作为意志和表象的世界》 **卷

在此套文库中，我们继续传承了之前出版原则：出版人类历***经典书籍，以**廉的价格，*用心的制作，*精美的装帧设计，在中国读者群中，传递正能量。到目前为止，我们已经出版了5辑，共75种图书。我们还要继续出版，出版范围还要继续扩大到更宽泛的领域。

艾米莉?狄金森是美国著名女诗人。她一生只活了56年，并且是一种离群索居的状态下过完一生的。她终身未嫁。朋友寥寥，只有几个还算是知心的朋友，但也只与其保持书信关系而已。她了大量的诗作，大约为1800首左右。生前发表过的诗作，都经过了编辑的加工，以适应当年人们对诗作的韵脚的审美规范。很多诗作描写的主题是死亡与不朽。她的名气越来越大，是因为其死后由其朋友整理并发表出了大量她生前的诗作使然。她的诗作对后来的美国诗坛有巨大的影响力，成为不能逾越的文化现象。

艾米莉·狄金森（又称狄更生）（Emily Dickinson，1830~1886）美国传奇诗人。出生于律师家庭。青少年时代生活单调而平静受正规宗教教育。从二十五岁开始弃绝社交女尼似的闭门不出，在孤独中埋头写诗三十年，留下诗稿一千七百余首；生前只是发表过七首，其余的都是她死后才出版，并被世人所知名气极大。狄金森的诗主要写生活情趣，自然、生命、信仰、友谊、爱情。诗风凝练婉约、意向清新，描绘真切、精微，思想深沉、凝聚力强，极富独创性。她被视为二十世纪现代主义诗歌的先驱之一。美国诗人*著名的佼佼者是美国文学之父欧文，以及惠特曼和狄金森。她深锁在盒子里的大量创作诗篇是她留给世人的**礼物。在她有生之年，她的作品未能获得青睐，然而周遭众人对她的不解与误会，却丝毫无法低损她丰富的创作天分。根据统计，艾米莉惊人的创作力为世人留下1800多首诗，包括了定本的1775首与新近发现的25首。

General Preface

Millions of Chinese are learning English to acquire
knowledge and skills for communication in a world
where English has become the primary language for
international discourse. Yet not many learners have come
to realize that the command of the English language also
enables them to have an easy access to the world literary
classics such as Shakespeare’s plays, Shelley’s poems,
mark Twain’s novels and Nietzsche’s works which are an
important part of liberal-arts education. The most important
goals of universities are not vocational, that is, not merely
the giving of knowledge and the training of skills.
In a broad sense, education aims at broadening young
people’s mental horizon, cultivating virtues and shaping
their character. Lincoln, Mao Zedong and many other
great leaders and personages of distinction declared how
they drew immense inspiration and strength from literary
works. As a matter of fact, many of them had aspired to
become writers in their young age. Alexander the Great
(356-323 B.C.) is said to take along with him two things,
waking or sleeping: a book and a dagger, and the book
is Iliad, a literary classic, by Homer. He would put these
two much treasured things under his pillow when he
went to bed.
Today, we face an unprecedented complex and
changing world. To cope with this rapid changing world
requires not only communication skills, but also adequate
knowledge of cultures other than our own home culture.
Among the most important developments in present-day
global culture is the ever increasing cultural exchanges
and understanding between different nations and peoples.
And one of the best ways to know foreign cultures is
to read their literary works, particularly their literary
classics, the soul of a country’s culture. They also give
you the best language and the feeling of sublimity.

Liaoning People’s Publishing House is to be
congratulated for its foresight and courage in making
a new series of world literary classics available to the
reading public. It is hoped that people with an adequate
command of the English language will read them, like
them and keep them as their lifetime companions.

I am convinced that the series will make an important contribution to the literary education of the young people in china. At a time when the whole country is emphasizing “spiritual civilization”, it is certainly a very timely venture to put out the series of literary classics for literary and cultural education.

Zhang Zhongzai
Professor
Beijing Foreign Studies University
July, 2013 Beijing

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ‘s a pair of us — don’t tell!
They ‘d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!