The Source of Xuehai Academy Poetry and Its Poetic Significance
The reply poetry was an important element in the poetry teaching at Guangzhou Xuehai Academy.The academy took Du Fu,Han Yu,Su Shi and Huang Tingjian as the standard and object in studying poetry,striving for novelty and surprise and crowning touches,and emphasizing the layout.While using all kinds of allusions and rare words to follow the academic path of creating poetry through learning and taking the past as a foundation,it also tolerated changes.Its emphasis on perspectives,expansion of themes,rewriting,and the supplementing and perfection of discussion and arguments brought its reply poetry into perfection on the track of traditional poetics,making it an important inheritor and promoter of the Song poetry,and contributed an indelible supporting force to the construction of Guangzhou's poetics system.
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