Summer Knowledge
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Summary
It is knowledge of the truth of love and the truth of growth: it is knowledge before and after knowledge: thus, in a sense, summer's knowledge is not knowledge at all: it is second nature, and first nature has satisfied a new birth and a new rebirth after death, soaring forth from the transforming October, the burning November.
That flame which rises up and falls back, growing ever more vivid, ever more vigorous, reaches its height in the consumption and annihilation of autumn's blaze. — Delmore Schwartz, Summer Knowledge
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in modernist and English-language poetry
- Readers accustomed to slow reading who are willing to savor dense imagery repeatedly
- Poets or writers who want to study how poetry organizes abstract speculation
- Readers seeking a quiet, contemplative experience through poetry at night
Not a good fit for
- Beginning readers expecting light lyricism and plain language
- Readers who want to finish quickly and seek plot or story
- Readers impatient with abstract speculation and dense imagery
Reading tips
- Read only three to five poems at a time, leaving time for the imagery to settle; no need to finish in one sitting.
- Read aloud first to feel the rhythm and breath of the lines, then return to the speculative relationships between words.
- Pay attention to recurring images such as seasons, flames, soil, and flowers, and connect them to understand the book's themes.
- After finishing, pick one poem to reread and try to retell in your own words what it says, to test whether you have truly entered it.
About the publisher
People's Literature Publishing House publishes across classical literature, foreign literature, documentary writing and folk literature, with 492 titles in its catalogue. Representative books range from the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms to Lao She's Teahouse and Longxu Ditch in the Selected Works of Lao She, as well as translated foreign literature such as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Dante's Divine Comedy and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, alongside documentary and fictional works including Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Its authors include Chinese writers such as Lao She, translators such as Shen Emeri and Li Wenjun, and foreign authors such as James Wood. Overall, the house has a strong record in editing classic works and translating foreign literature, with a publishing character that bridges Chinese and foreign writing and values textual quality.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 作者说明
- 辑一 知识之梦
- 沙皇孩子们的歌谣
- 在赤裸的床上，在柏拉图的洞穴里
- 时光中的这个瞬间
- 那美妙的美国字眼，当然
- 哦，爱情，黑暗动物
- 父与子
- 哈姆雷特的罪恶
- 当你看着窗外的水彩画
- 有人像从前那样剧烈地咳嗽
- 疲惫和不快，你想到房子
- 在微微的涟漪中，思想感觉到心
- 担心那自信的人为的统一性
- 你会讲法语吗？
- 由环境去喂养
- 一个年幼的孩子和他怀孕的母亲
- 婚前曲
- 年迈的浮士德
- 詹姆士和珀斯的鬼魂在哈佛庭院
- 啊城市，城市
- 什么将被给予
- 致把人生放在他手中的人
- 致不把他的人生放在手中的人
- 圣徒，革命者
- 坎布里奇，1937年春
- 如今苏格拉底的鬼魂必定萦绕着我
- 第五年的芭蕾舞团
- 辑二 重复的心
- 我们所有人总是转过身去寻求安慰
- 也许你会愿意成为
- 所有小丑都戴上面具
- 平静地，我们步行穿过这个四月的日子
- 狗是莎士比亚式的，孩子们是陌生人
- 其他人有怀着恶意嘲弄地谈起我吗？
- 对于自己的心我仅仅是个奴隶
- 亚伯拉罕和俄耳甫斯，现在和我在一起
- 那只随我一起走的笨熊
- 一只叫伊果的狗，雪花般的吻
- 时间的奉献
- 辑三 夏天的知识
- 在庄严的音乐会上
- 阴暗的夏天，不详的黄昏，轰隆的雨
- 满足
- 第二世界的第一个早晨
- 夏天的知识
- 辑四 早晨的铃声
- 小姑娘唱着“我是活泼的樱桃”
- 哦，孩子，不要害怕黑暗和睡眠的黑暗领地
- 忠诚的美国人
- 想要成为匈牙利人
- 现在是早晨？是那转瞬即逝的早晨吗？
- 一个小成绩
- 一支小小的晨间音乐
- 辑五 诗歌王国
- 金色早晨，甜蜜王子
- 维瓦尔第
- 斯特恩
- 斯威夫特
- 荷尔德林
- 波德莱尔
- 诗歌王国
- 塞纳河边修拉的礼拜天下午
- 辑六 骗人的当下，重生之年
- 当我出生时，世界温暖而洁白
- 我是一本我不会写也不会读的书
- 结论
- 续集
- 那黑暗坠落的夏天
- 冬天的黄昏，闪耀着金色和黑色
- 所有果实都已坠落
- 那朦朦胧胧的忧郁
- 我不知道生长的树的真相
- 他们所有人都离开了，虽然他们曾经靠近过
- 我不懂得欢乐的好处
- 我被一声呼唤叫醒
- 骗人的当下，重生之年
- 五月的真相和谎言
- 爱是如此奇怪，在每一种意识状态中
- 装裱纸般的夏天，明亮又不祥
- 在十二月的死亡期间
- 一个冬天的梦，空荡荡，毛茸茸，洁白如冰，易碎
- 在绿色的早晨，现在，再一次
- 辑七 重生合唱团
- 一劳永逸
- 丘比特的圣歌
- 普赛克恳求丘比特
- 那喀索斯
- 亚伯拉罕
- 撒拉
- 雅各
- 林肯
- 星光般的直觉穿透了十二个人
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About the author
Delmore Schwartz is a literary author included in our catalog, with two works available: The Knowledge of Summer and Responsibility Begins with a Dream. The titles are commonly classified under literature and foreign literature. Public information is limited, and his English name, nationality, and dates of birth and death cannot be confirmed, so no biographical inferences are made here. Judging from the confirmed titles, his writing seems to revolve around images of knowledge, summer, responsibility, and dreams, showing a tendency to place abstract propositions alongside concrete feeling; stylistically it may lean toward the speculative and the poetic, giving his work a distinctive personal character within foreign literature. For readers hoping to encounter less mainstream literary voices, these two works offer an entry into his writing and point to the need for further research into his life and creative background.
Ling Yue is an author about whom relatively limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be confirmed. Nevertheless, the five works held in the collection offer a general sense of his direction as a writer and editor. He focuses on foreign literature, especially the translation and selection of English-language poetry. His representative works include The Beauty of Dappled Things: Selected Poems of Hopkins, The Knowledge of Summer, Responsibility Begins with a Dream, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, and Howling Wilderness: Selected Poems of Emily Brontë. These works involve poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Stephen Crane, and Emily Brontë, showing Ling Yue's sustained engagement with poetry translation and anthology editing, and providing readable texts through which Chinese readers can approach the English poetic tradition. His works are commonly classified under literature and foreign literature, and his overall profile leans toward serious poetry translation rather than popular writing.
Liang Jiaying is a Chinese-language book author about whom limited public information is available. Her four works currently on record are mostly related to the translation and compilation of foreign poetry. Representative titles include A Patchwork Beauty: Selected Poems of Hopkins, The Knowledge of Summer, Responsibility Begins with a Dream, and The Howling Wilderness: Selected Poems of Emily Brontë, all centered on introducing and presenting English-language poetry. Judging from these titles and the common categories of literature and foreign literature, her work spans both fields, with a focus on bringing poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Brontë to Chinese readers. Because public information is limited, details of her personal life, education, and nationality remain unclear; nonetheless, the existing works show a sustained engagement with the translation and introduction of foreign poetry, offering Chinese readers access to English poems of diverse styles.
