序跋集 (Forewords and Afterwords)

《序跋集》是《奥登文集》中一部重要的随笔集。《序跋集》中所收录的随笔，写作时间横跨二十世纪四十年代到七十年代，内容涉及文学、神学、哲学、艺术甚至日常家居，材料翔实严谨，文笔纵横捭阖，具有极高的学术价值、历史价值和美学价值。《序与跋》是作者W.H.奥登撰写的一部有关诗作前言、后跋的集子。这些诗歌创作前言和后跋反映作者的创作思想、创作过程和创作感受。如有关1937年创作的长诗《西班牙》，他在前言中写道，作为救护车驾驶员，1937年他参加了西班牙的反法西斯武装斗争。关于《战地行》（1939）的前言中，他道出了与小说家衣修午德一起到中国战地采访的感受。这些有关创作的前言和后跋对读者了解奥登的创作全貌有一定的帮助。(Forewords and Afterwords is an important essays in Collected Essays of Auden. The writing time of essays in Forewords and Afterwords stretches from 1940's to 1970's. The content of the essay including literature, theology, philosophy, art and even daily life. The writing material is full and accurate and the writing style is perpendicular and horizontal. So the essay has great academic value, historical value and aesthetic value. Forewords and Afterwords is a collection of W.H.Auden that related to the forewords and afterwords of poems. These forewords and afterwords reflected the creative thought, creative process and creative feelings of the author. For example, about the long poem Spain created in 1937, he wrote in the forewords, as an ambulance driver, he took part in the anti-fascist armed struggle of Spain in 1937. In regard to the forewords of Journey to A War (1939), he expressed the feeling that Christopher Isherwood and him went to China battleground to had an interview. These forewords and afterwords related to creation have definite assistance on readers to understand the overall creation of Auden.)