史上最浪漫的十封英文情书，看他们如何把恋爱谈得轰轰烈烈又细水长流

拿破仑

Napoleon Bonaparte

1796年，27岁的拿破仑在巴黎邂逅了大他6岁的约瑟芬，对她一见钟情，两人很快结婚了。

婚后不过48小时，拿破仑就上了战场。远征的拿破仑非常想念他心中的女神，每天趴在战壕里给爱妻写信。

然而，他寄出去的信却石沉大海，约瑟芬极少回信。没多久，拿破仑就听说妻子有了外遇……

I loved you some time ago; since then I feel that I love you a thousand times better. Ah, let me see some of your faults; be less beautiful, less graceful, less tender, less good. But never be jealous and never shed tears. Your tears send me out of my mind and they set my very blood on fire.

我不久前爱上你，自那以后，我对你的爱更增千倍。哎，真希望看到你的美中不足。再少几分甜美，少几分优雅，少几分妩媚，少几分姣好吧。但绝不要嫉妒，不要流泪。你的眼泪使我神魂颠倒，也使我热血沸腾。

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萧伯纳

George Bernard Shaw

1931年，一部被人称为“萧伯纳情书”的书信集出版了。但这部“情书”的对象，并非萧伯纳的夫人，而是英国著名女演员爱兰·黛丽。

书信集里，双方谈论艺术、戏剧等问题之余，还互相表达了热烈的爱意。两人通了30年的信，一生却只见过几次面。即便他们在同一个城市居住，相距只有20分钟的步行路程。

两个人这种“纸上的爱意”是一段真正的柏拉图式爱恋。

The weather has frowned; but Fortune has smiled. Ten splendid things have happened:

天气不好，可是命运之神却向我微笑。我遇到了十桩得意的事情：

1. a letter from Ellen Terry.

一、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

2. a check for my Chicago royalties from Arms and the Man.

二、接到从芝加哥寄来的一张《武器和武士》版税汇票；

3. a letter from Ellen Terry.

三、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

4. the rolling away of the clouds from the difficult 2nd act of my new play, leaving the view clear and triumphant right on to the curtain.

四、我已经在我的新剧本的第二幕里，打破难关，拨开云雾见青天了；

5. a letter from Ellen Terry.

五、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

6. a beautiful sunset bicycle ride over the hills and far away, thinking of Ellen Terry.

六、看见美丽的落日，在遥远的山边坠下，心里想念着爱兰·黛丽；

7. a letter from Ellen Terry.

七、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

8. a letter from Ellen Terry.

八、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

9. a letter from Ellen Terry.

九、收到爱兰·黛丽一封信；

10. a letter from Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Ellen Eleanor Ellenest Terry.

十、收到爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰、爱兰兰、爱兰兰兰·黛丽一封信。

雪莱

Percy Bysshe Shelley

雪莱是一名柏拉图主义者，也是个理想主义者。1811年，雪莱邂逅了28岁的伊丽莎白·西琴勒。

伊丽莎白是一名教师，拥有先锋派思想，雪莱将其视为自己的心灵知己和缪斯女神，两人一直保持着通信往来和纯洁的精神友谊。

有趣的是，两人还在通信中对爱情是什么进行了严谨的学术探讨。

What is love, or friendship? Is it something material...a ball, an apple, a plaything...which must be taken from one to be given to another? Is it capable of no extension, no communication? Lord Kaimes defines love to be a particularization of the general passion. But this is the love of sensation, of sentiment...the absurdest of absurd vanities: it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness. 

何谓爱情？何谓友情？是一些实在的东西吗？是球、苹果、玩偶……是从一个人那儿拿来，又给予另一个人的实物吗？是不能深化、不能交流的吗？Kaimes勋爵给爱情下的定义是，爱情是一般激情的特殊体现，但这是肉欲之爱、情欲之爱……是荒谬绝伦的逢场作戏，是寻欢作乐的爱，不是幸福的爱。

But love, the love which we worship , ... virtue, heaven, disinterestedness ... in a word, Friendship ... which has as much to do with the senses as with yonder mountains; that which seeks the good of all ... the good of its object first, not because that object is a minister to its Pleasures, not merely because it even contributes to its happiness, but because it is really worthy, because it has powers, sensibilities, is capable of abstracting itself, and loving virtue's own loveliness ... 

但我们崇拜的爱，象征美德、天意和无私，一句话，真情……它能被感知，就像远方山头上的云朵一样。它追求大家的幸福……首先是对方的幸福，不是因为对方给予欢乐，不光它甚至能给予欢乐，更因为它真的值得，它有力量，有感知力，并能将自己抽离，因为美德的可爱而热爱美德…… 

约翰·济慈

John Keats

诗人济慈一生短暂而璀璨。他23岁时遇到邻家女孩芬妮·勃劳恩（Fanny Brawne），两人坠入爱河。悲哀的是，当时济慈已患有肺结核，健康每况愈下，两人订了婚却没等到结婚。

1821年，25岁的济慈为避严寒而奔赴意大利，最终客死他乡。

在这段甜蜜而苦涩的爱情中，济慈留下了整整三打情书。他下葬时，胸口还放着一封写给芬妮的信。芬妮一生都没有取下与济慈订婚的戒指。

2009年的济慈传记电影《明亮的星》（Bright Star）剧照

I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me.

没有你我无法存活。我忘却了一切，只想着要与你再见。我的生命似乎就此终止，没有更远的未来。你占据了我的一切。

I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving ….I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shudder’d at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr’d for my religion – love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet – you have ravish’d me away by a power I cannot resist.

我有一种感觉，就在这一刻我似乎正在消融……我曾惊讶于有人会为宗教而牺牲，我曾一想到这就战栗不已。现在我不再为此战栗了。我也可以为我的宗教牺牲。爱就是我的宗教，我可以为它而死，我可以为你而死。我的信经就是爱，而你就是它唯一的信条。你用我无法抵抗的力量将我彻底摧毁。