On Wen Yiduo's Inheritance and Development of Traditional Poetics

Seek truth and Seek are Wen Yiduo's two critical dimensions of the classic poetics.The former is the main factor which inherits Chinese traditional poetics,while the latter absorbs the factor of western estheticism.Wen Yiduo considers the genius of poetry as expression of disposition.But he also seeks the form beauty in poetry because he absorbs the western estheticism.Moreover in poetic criticism,he not only makes use of traditional XunGu,but also introduces the western methods.He manages to restore the particular social milieu that the ancient verse produces,and carries on the research of literature essence from the living scenes where literature art is created.