W. M. ThackerayW・M・サッカレー / 1811-63

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インドのカルカッタに生まれ、5歳でイングランドに移り住む。サッカレーと言えば The Book of Snobs (1847) や Vanity Fair (1848) といった風刺精神溢れる散文作品がよく知られているが、彼がケンブリッジ大学トリニティ・カレッジをわずか一年で退学した理由は、散文ではなく詩作に耽り、勉学を怠ったためと言われている。幼くして父親を亡くし、結婚してからは妻が発狂し、苦難の多い生涯を送ったと言われるサッカレーであるが、彼の詩作品には、彼が人生に必要であると考えたユーモアが満ち溢れている。 (M. M.)

English novelist and poet. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, and was sent to England when he was five. He is famous as a satirist who wrote The Book of Snobs (1847), Vanity Fair (1848) and other works, but the reason he left Trinity College, Cambridge in less than one year, was that he had been devoting himself to writing poetry. Though it is reported that he endured all sorts of suffering, such as his father’s death in his infancy and his wife’s lunacy, his poetry is full of humour, which he believed to be essential for life. (M. M.)

原詩（PDF）

1. The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
2. The Ballad of Eliza Davis
3. The Cane-Bottom'd Chair
4. Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
5. The Excellent New Ballad of Mr. Peel at Toledo
6. The Flying Duke
7. The King of Brentford’s Testament
8. The Knight and the Lady
9. The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch
10. Little Billee
11. The Willow-Tree
12. The Willow-Tree (Another Version)
13. A Woeful New Ballad of the Protestant Conspiracy to Take the Pope’s Life
14. The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown

原詩出典

＊　The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. London: Smith, Elder, & C., 1899.
＊　W. M. Thackeray, Ballads and Contributions to ‘Punch’ 1842-1850. Ed. with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London: Oxford UP, n.d.

＊　W. M. Thackeray, Contributions to “Punch”, The Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Vol. 6. London, 1898.
＊　Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. Vol. 1. London, 1855.