Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its o...Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.展开更多
This paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society＇s （Nanshe） diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of H...This paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society＇s （Nanshe） diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian＇s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang＇s Europeanized innovation into something that was rooted in both traditional scholarship and modern political discourse. I argue that the poetry of the Southern Society as being more formally conservative than Huang＇s; however, spiritually, it represents a kind of progress as it styled itself as the ＂poetry of the cotton-clothed＂ （buy/zhi shi）--the ＂cotton- clothed＂ stands for the scholars not serving in court. In this regard, its poetry could be seen as modern in spirit. It selectively integrated the traditional and the Western, for pragmatic and utilitarian purposes.展开更多
文摘Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.
文摘This paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society＇s （Nanshe） diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian＇s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang＇s Europeanized innovation into something that was rooted in both traditional scholarship and modern political discourse. I argue that the poetry of the Southern Society as being more formally conservative than Huang＇s; however, spiritually, it represents a kind of progress as it styled itself as the ＂poetry of the cotton-clothed＂ （buy/zhi shi）--the ＂cotton- clothed＂ stands for the scholars not serving in court. In this regard, its poetry could be seen as modern in spirit. It selectively integrated the traditional and the Western, for pragmatic and utilitarian purposes.
