Liu Chenweng's Literary Concepts Analyzed from His Comments on Meng Haoran's Poetry
As a writer and literary critic in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasties,Liu Chenweng comprehen-sively commented on Meng Haoran's poetry in terms of the artistic style,textual structure,language rhetoric,and so on.Based on his comments on Meng Haoran's poetry,this research explores his three interrelated literary con-cepts:the ideological concept of"sincere emotions",the writing concept of"fluent naturalness",and the critical concept of"aesthetic appreciation".Liu Chenweng's literary thought for pursuing emotional sincerity contributes to his viewpoints to advocate naturalness in terms of writing and aesthetics in terms of criticism.Liu Chenweng's liter-ary concepts approach the essence of literature,because he paid attention to life-orientation and emotionality of lit-erature and the inner experience of readers.
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