British poet. Born on July 24th in Wimbledon to an Irish folk song researcher and poet father and a mother descended from the German historian Ranke. He participated in World War I while studying at Oxford University, and first emerged as a Georgian-style war poet. "Fairies and Fusiliers" (1917) is a work from this period. After the war, he published the romantic poem "The Looking-Glass" (1921), which was accompanied by an obsession with bullet shock, but his style changed after his relationship with the American female poet Laura Riding (1901-1991), and he began to publish works that were concise, yet harsh and bitter, and sung about love between men and women. Based on his extensive knowledge of Celtic mythology and early Christianity, he let his wild imagination take hold, crystallizing a goddess of beauty whom he called the "White Goddess," and becoming her apostle himself. The mythological system in question, The White Goddess (1948), is a modern curiosity that systematizes the goddess from a cultural anthropological and comparative mythological perspective, as its subtitle, "A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth," suggests. He also wrote a book with Riding entitled "Perspectives on Modernist Poetry" (1927), and, drawing on his vast knowledge, he also wrote a magnificent two-part historical novel, "Claudius I" (1934) and "Claudius the God" (1934), both based on the Roman Empire. He also wrote "Count Belisarius" (1938) and "The Greeks: A Collection of Greek Myths" (1955). After 1929, he settled on the Spanish island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean, and served as professor of poetry at Oxford University for four years from 1961. He died on December 7, 1985. [Hiroshi Debuchi] "World Famous Poetry Anthology 10: Selected Poems" (1959, Heibonsha) translated by Narita Shigetoshi ; "World Literature Anthology 35: Time, The White Goddess, and Others" (1959, Shueisha) translated by Shinoda Kazushi and others; Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend |
イギリスの詩人。7月24日、アイルランドの民謡研究家で詩人の父と、ドイツの歴史学者ランケの血を引く母との間にウィンブルドンで生まれる。オックスフォード大学在学中に第一次世界大戦に参加、まずジョージ王朝詩風の戦争詩人として登場した。『妖精(ようせい)たちと火打銃兵たち』(1917)はこの期の作品。戦後、弾丸衝撃による強迫観念を伴ったロマン主義的な詩集『姿見』(1921)を発表するが、アメリカの女流詩人ローラ・ライディングLaura Riding(1901―1991)との交際によって作風が変貌(へんぼう)し、簡潔で、しかも厳しく苦い、男女の愛を歌った作品を発表するようになる。ケルト神話や原始キリスト教についての博学な知識に基づいて、奔放な想像力をめぐらせ、「白い女神」と名づける美神を結晶させ、自らその使徒となる。問題の神話体系『白い女神』(1948)は「詩的神話の歴史的文法」と副題を付したように、この女神を文化人類学的、比較神話学的に系統づけた現代の奇書である。 ほかにライディングとの共著『モダニスト詩の展望』(1927)や、博識を駆使して歴史小説にも筆を染め、帝政ローマに材をとった『私クラウディウス』(1934)、『神クラウディウス』(1934)という華麗な二部作もある。また『ベリサリウス伯』(1938)、ギリシア神話の集大成『ギリシア神話』(1955)などもある。1929年以降は地中海のスペイン領マジョルカ島に居を定め、1961年から4年間オックスフォード大学詩学教授を務めた。1985年12月7日没。 [出淵 博] 『成田成寿訳『世界名詩集大成10 自選詩集』(1959・平凡社)』▽『篠田一士他訳『世界文学全集35 時間・白い女神他』(1959・集英社)』 出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例 |
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