《秋颂》为济慈所作的一首诗歌。济慈,全名约翰·济慈John Keats(1795年—1821年),出生于18世纪末年的伦敦,他是杰出的英国诗作家之一,也是浪漫派的主要成员。其一生写出了大量的优秀作品,其中包括《圣艾格尼丝之夜》《秋颂》《夜莺颂》和《致秋天》等名作,表现出诗人对大自然的强烈感受和热爱,为他赢得巨大声誉。济慈诗才横溢,与雪莱、拜伦齐名。他生平只有25岁,但其遗下的诗篇一直誉满人间,被认为完美地体现了西方浪漫主义诗歌的特色,并被推崇为欧洲浪漫主义运动的杰出代表。他主张“美即是真,真即是美”,擅长描绘自然景色和事物外貌,表现景物的色彩感和立体感,重视写作技巧,语言追求华美,对后世抒情诗的创作影响极大。
To Autumn
John Keats
I.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.