英语词汇poetic justice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

poetic justice. The first printed reference to the term, most often meaning just deserts or a fitting punishment for a crime, is found in Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad (1742): “Poetic Jus- tice with her lifted scale, / When in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. . . .” At the time of Pope’s invention it meant the ideal justice poets dispensed. Novelist Henry Fielding, also a British justice of the peace, wrote an article for a satirical journal demanding that there be a kind of poetic justice for the poet laureate Colley Cibber (1671–1757)—that he be tried for murder of the English language. Fielding was apparently get- ting even with Cibber for calling him a “broken wit.”

词汇	poetic justice
词源	poetic justice. The first printed reference to the term, most often meaning just deserts or a fitting punishment for a crime, is found in Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad (1742): “Poetic Jus- tice with her lifted scale, / When in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. . . .” At the time of Pope’s invention it meant the ideal justice poets dispensed. Novelist Henry Fielding, also a British justice of the peace, wrote an article for a satirical journal demanding that there be a kind of poetic justice for the poet laureate Colley Cibber (1671–1757)—that he be tried for murder of the English language. Fielding was apparently get- ting even with Cibber for calling him a “broken wit.”
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