引言托马斯·哈代(1840—1928)是跨越19世纪和20世纪的英国杰出诗人和小说家。和他的小说一样,哈代的诗歌也是关于“威塞克斯”当地的生活,并且他在诗歌中采用了源自19世纪甚至更早的英国传统的诗体形式和口语化的诗歌语言。从诗歌的角度说,哈代更是个传统人物,是20世纪50年代英国诗歌反现代主义倾向的先驱。菲利普·拉金(1922—1985)是英国“运动派”诗歌的领军人物, Introduction Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is a prominent British poet and novelist who spans the 19th and 20th centuries. Like his novels, Hardy’s poetry is also about the local life of Wessex, and he uses in his poems the poetic forms and colloquial language of poetry derived from the English tradition of the 19th century and beyond. . From the poetic point of view, Hardy is a more traditional figure, a pioneer in the anti-modernist tendency of British poetry in the 1950s. Phillip Larkin (1922-1985) is a leading figure in British “Movement Faction” poetry,