2011年1月8日 星期六

human race

Modern Painters Part Three - Google 圖書結果

John Ruskin - 2005 - Art - 380 頁
As the grass of the earth, thought of as the herb yielding seed, leads us to the ... a third family of plants, and fulfils a third office to the human race. ...



關於散文詩 多以為是來自法國 昨天晚上讀 Ruskin Today by K. Clark (1962) p.102 選 Grass 草 注"此段為 M. Arnold 選來說明Ruskin的散文詩 根據他1949年6月3日在Vevey 所作的筆記...." 收入Modern Painters 我對照幾年前廣西師範的譯本 發現錯誤百出 這是中國學界之悲哀 連 人類 human race 都會翻譯成"人的競爭"等等.... 讓我們想一下 這本書是 Oliver Wendell Holmes 在他兒子16歲送給小霍姆斯的生日禮物 讓他對藝術世界更深入探索......參考
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes : Law & Inner Self.....)

(今天上網找不到他的墓志 找到他的一本書的第一章說明: 一The title-page of chapter i. was as follows:--
Praeterita / Outlines of / Scenes and Thoughts / perhaps / worthy of Memory / in my past Life. / By / John Ruskin, LL.D. / Honorary Student of Christ Church, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi / College, and Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford / Chapter l / The Springs of Wandel. / With Steel Engravings of My Two Aunts. / George Allen, / Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent / 1855)

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