吴筠：道士诗人与道教诗

吴筠作为一位道士诗人,无论在唐诗史还是在宗教文学史上都具有不同寻常的地位。他曾有过。朝避地的经历,又处文人世俗化的“天使”地位。其诗在内容上以道为体;以儒为用,是列仙之趣的代表,多近乎迷醉的幻想,虽不乏社会批判,但主要为全身远害。他的诗作在形式上偏爱五言、古体;喜爱联章组诗;具浪漫的幻想色彩。

A TAOIST POET WU YUN AND HIS TAOISTIC POEMS

Wu Yun, as a Taoist poet,assumes an extraordinary place both in the history of the Tang Dynasty poerns and in that of religious literature.He had the experience of first being invited into the royal palace and then seeking solitude to practise Tao,and yet he was still considered to be a secularized "angel" among men of letters at that time.His poems are Taoistic in content and Confucian in function.They are the representative of the taste of immortals.Most of these poems are chiefly indulgent in illusion.They criticise the then society ,but largely speaking,the just aim to preserve the author's own purity and keep out of trouble.The poems are of Wuyan and Guti in form,and Guti in form,and show a tendency to thechapter-coordinating composition.To be short,they are romantically illussory.