论姚莹的诗学观及其诗学价值

姚莹既是桐城麻溪姚氏家族、桐城派后期的重要作家,又是嘉道时期经世文士的杰出代表。在诗学方面,受家族和时代的影响,姚莹强调古今并重,主张诗歌必须表现真情,同时又追求诗歌的道德教化、经济天下的功用,他的诗学观念熔个性自觉意识与士大夫情怀于一炉,显示出继续与新变交汇的特点。姚莹诗学观念所呈现出来的变化,无论于桐城麻溪姚氏家族诗学还是桐城派诗学,乃至于晚清诗学,其所具有的转关意义均在一定程度上得以凸显。

On Yao Ying's Poetics and Poetic Value

As a key writer of Yao Family of Maxi and Tongcheng branch,Yao Ying was also an outstanding representative of pragmatic scholars in the time of Jiaqing and Daoguang Emperors.In poetics,under the influence of his family and the time,Yao Ying balanced the past and present,advocated expression of true feelings in poems,and also pursued the moral teaching and benefiting the whole society through poems.His poetics integrated individual awareness with compassion of literati and officialdom,showed the feature of the intersection of inheritance and changes.The transitional significance of the changes in Yao Ying’s poetics became prominent as for poetry of Yao Family,Tongcheng branch,and even the whole poetry in Qing Dynasty.