英语词汇all this for a song的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

all this for a song. The phrase, reflecting an often prevalent attitude toward poetry, was spoken by William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, England’s Lord Treasurer under Queen Elizabeth, when the Queen ordered him to give 100 pounds to Edmund Spenser as a royal gratuity for writing The Faerie Queene. Bur- leigh was later satirized in Richard Sheridan’s The Critic, in which he comes onstage but never talks, just nodding because he is much too busy with affairs of state to do more. This in- spired the expression Burleigh’s nod and as significant as a shake of Burleigh’s head.

词汇	all this for a song
词源	all this for a song. The phrase, reflecting an often prevalent attitude toward poetry, was spoken by William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, England’s Lord Treasurer under Queen Elizabeth, when the Queen ordered him to give 100 pounds to Edmund Spenser as a royal gratuity for writing The Faerie Queene. Bur- leigh was later satirized in Richard Sheridan’s The Critic, in which he comes onstage but never talks, just nodding because he is much too busy with affairs of state to do more. This in- spired the expression Burleigh’s nod and as significant as a shake of Burleigh’s head.
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