通往先知诗人“幻象”的“感知之门”

——评利奥·达姆罗施的《威廉·布莱克：永恒日出的想象世界》

Title： The“Gate of Perception”to the“Visions”of the Prophet Poet： A Review of Leo Damrosch's Eternity's Sunrise： The Imaginative World of William Blake

Abstract： Leo Damrosch's Eternity's Sunrise： The Imaginative World of William Blake is a critical biography of William Blake， the British Romantic poet and artist. Both the value of the original work and the quality of its translation are of high standard. Starting with Blake’s early years of art practice and moving through the stages of his creative journey from Innocence， Experience， Revolution，to The Prophetic Calland finally to The Traveler in the Evening， the author explores the poet's symbolic world and complicated mythological system in his poems and paintings， and presents to readers in a simple but profound way Blake's philosophical，political， religious，and artistic views as well as his aesthetic experiences. Damrosch weaves together time， space，and themes of Blake's poetry， accompanied by a large number of his drawings and paintings （colored engravings），aiming to reproduce Blake's visionary powers and his extraordinary originality in poetic and artistic creation.

Key words： Leo Damrosch; William Blake; vision; perception

Author： Wang Songlin， Ph. D.， is professor at Faculty of Foreign Languages， Ningbo University （Ningbo 315211， China）. His main research interests are ethical literary criticism and comparative literary & cultural studies.

《威廉·布莱克：永恒日出的想象世界》（英文原名为：Eternity'sSunrise：TheImaginativeWorldofWilliamBlake，以下简称《永恒日出》）是一部关于英国浪漫主义诗人兼画家威廉·布莱克（WilliamBlake）的评传，作者是哈佛大学18世纪文学及浪漫主义文学研究专家利奥·达姆罗施（LeoDamrosch），英文原版由哈佛大学出版社于2015年出版。（剩余13511字）