Стихи, написанные на чистом листе (Бернс/Смирнов)
| Стихи, написанные на чистом листе , пер. Д. Смирнов-Садовский (р. 1948) |
| Язык оригинала: шотландский. Название в оригинале: Verses Written Upon a Blank Leaf. — Дата создания: 1789, пер. 2009 (перевод). Источник: http://www.robertburns.org/works/125.shtml |

1789.
Перевод: 12 августа 2009, Сент-Олбанс |
Signed R.B. 1789
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Примечания
Напечатано в "Gentleman’s Magazine" в апреле 1789, (с. 353). Элиза -- вероятно Элизабет Риддел, жена Роберта Риддела, соседа Бернса, владельца фермы, на которой Бернс работал в то время.
- 8. Феб – эпитет Аполлона, означающий чистоту, блеск, прорицание; аллегория Солнца.
- 12-21. В стихотворении упомянуты поэты: Эдмунд Уоллер (1606-1687), Джон Мильтон (1608-1674), Джон Драйден (1631-1700), Александр Поп (1688-1744), Джеймс Томсон (1700-1748), Чарльз Черчиль (1732-1764) и Уильям Купер (1731-1800) – в заголовке.
- 20. Сын Юпитера – Феб (или Аполлон) сын Зевса (или Юпитера) и Лето. Имеется в виду Солнце.
Verses Written Upon a Blank Leaf in COWPER’s POEMS Belonging To A Lady, may indeed be Burns’s work. It is an occasional poem with little literary significance and although the verse is mediocre, it does have some merit and several echoes from his known writings. It is found in The Gentleman’s Magazine of April 1789, (page 353) a time when Burns was farming Ellisland, the neighbour of Robert Riddell, who was a frequent contributor to that journal. The “Eliza” mentioned in the first line may have been Elizabeth Riddell, wife of Robert Riddell. Burns was, by 1789, familiar with the verse of William Cowper and had a particular liking of the popular long poem, The Task, as mentioned in a letter to Mrs Dunlop (CL 605). Indeed, the first literary comparison made in the following poem is between Cowper and James Thomson, author of the celebrated work The Seasons. Such a comparison made by Burns in September 1788, in a letter to William Dunbar - “... Cowper’s Poems, the best poet out of sight since Thomson”. (CL 274). Burns was also familiar with all the other English poets mentioned, as his complete letters reveal, a fact confirmed in the listing of his library after his death. Due to textual and contextual evidence this poem is also included in the Canongate Burns edition.
Verses Written Upon a Blank Leaf in COWPER’s POEMS Belonging To A Lady
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