Abstract
A Review of Yan's, Bao's and the Xies' Poetry was written in Fang Hui's old age, which contains his views on the literature of the Six Dynasties. In his review, Fang Hui adopted the Jian'an Style and Jian'an Flavor as the criteria. Jian'an poetry excelled in the poetic style featuring the classic style of qiyun (aura) and wild abandon with strong and vigorous emotions, which were derived from the conviction that verses written in simple style are better than parallel sentences. Besides, writers preferred expressing emotions than depicting scenery. In these aspects, Yan's, Bao's and the Xies' poetry were not as good as Jian'an poetry. So Fang Hui criticized Yan's, Bao's and the Xies' poetry for gorgeous words and sedulously pursuing exquisiteness. Fang Hui did not simply pay attention on their shortcomings, but thought highly of those verses characterized by natural style and rich and interesting words. He also praised their influences on writings of the Tang and Song dynasties, and then analyzed their poetic features including structure, order, syntax and diction from the Jiangxi Poetry School's perspective. Meanwhile, Fang Hui affirmed their contribution to the reform of poetry, which meant that he wanted to change the decadent and vulgar poetic style of the Jiangxi Poetry School and the Siling Poetry School in order to revitalize the aesthetic ideal of the Jiangxi Poetry School. Besides, Fang Hui expressed his admiration of Tao Yuanming, which was also one of the important parts of his views on the poetics of the Six Dynasties.
First Page
152
Last Page
158
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Houjun. 2018. "A Review of Yan's, Bao's and the Xies' Poetry and Fang Hui's Poetics of the Six Dynasties." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (6): pp.152-158. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss6/2
