"Singing Appleton House" - Singing Appleton House

…At that time, he stayed at Appleton House as a tutor for the daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, a former commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary Army who had retired to his hometown of Yorkshire, at a different opinion from Cromwell. He sang of the beautiful garden and the surrounding nature with deep emotion. His lyric poems, which contain infinite shades of meaning, such as “The Garden,” “Singing of Appleton House,” and “The Nymph Lamenting the Death of a Fawn,” were a way of maintaining a complex and delicate emotional balance between opposing elements such as Puritanism and Anglicanism, political participation and seclusion, and nature and the artificial. In “The Coy Lover,” which is considered one of the most perfectly witty poems in the history of English poetry, the intellectual image manipulation of “metaphysical poetry” that began with Donne and the sense of balance of classical literature are beautifully balanced, showing the height of the maturity of his poetic sensibility. …

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…そのとき彼は，クロムウェルと意見を異にして故郷のヨークシャーに隠棲した元議会派軍総司令官トマス･フェアファクス卿の娘の家庭教師として，アップルトン邸と呼ばれる屋敷に滞在し，その美しい庭園や周囲の自然を，深い思いをこめて歌った。《庭》《アップルトン屋敷を歌う》《子鹿の死を悲しむニンフ》など，無限の陰影を含む抒情詩は，清教主義と国教会主義，政治的参加と隠棲，自然と人工等々の対立的要素の中間で，複雑で微妙な心情的バランスを保つ手段であったといえる。また英詩史上もっとも完ぺきな機知の詩の一つに数えられる《内気な恋人》では，ダンに始まる〈形而上詩〉の知的なイメージ操作と，古典文学的な平衡感覚がみごとなバランスを保って，詩的感性の成熟の極点を示している。…

※「《アップルトン屋敷を歌う》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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