英国维多利亚时代诗人杰拉德·霍普金斯(1844—1889)在世时的诗名并不大,但在其诗集于1919年首次出版后声名渐盛,在20世纪30年代达到第一个高潮①,之后不断上升,尤其是在生态批评兴起之后,他的生态诗歌受到西方批评界的高度关注与推重。有人认为,霍普金斯是维多利亚时期最令人印象深刻的环境诗人之一,可以称得上诗坛上的保罗·塞尚。他的诗歌和塞尚的作品一样都充满着对生物世界的爱,这种爱渗透到他诗行的每一个细节②。 Gerard Hopkins (1844-1889), a poet of the British Victorian era, was not very famous at the time of his death, but became famous after his poetry was first published in 1919 and reached its first climax in the 1930s After that, especially after the rise of ecocriticism, his ecological poetry was highly concerned and devalued by western critics. Some people think that Hopkins was one of the most impressive environmental poets in Victorian times, and could be called Paul Cezanne in the poetry world. Like his works, Cezanne’s poetry is full of love for the biological world, a love that permeates every detail of his poetry.