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Abstract

On the Art of Poetry談藝錄 written by Qian Zhongshu錢鍾書 is a book of literary criticism and the first book of Chinese and Western Comparative Poetics. In the course of writing, Qian concluded the major phenomenons and issues of literature of at all the times and in all lands, who are able also to debunk some problems. In addition, about Chinese and Western classics & the theory of literature, Qian made a comprehensive study of literature of at all the times and in all lands by mutual interpretation, mutual complementation, mutual confirmation. Based on this reason, this paper was performed to study of the appreciation and literary critic of Qian’s On the art of Poetry. The research presented here therefore takes the above as the starting point of its discussion. Beginning with Qian’s works and looking at how his “literary sensitivity” manifested itself in those writings, point of view between the appreciation and critic, the key topic of this paper is how did Qian seek the poetry mind and literary mind as psychology of literature and art. According to this point, This paper is consisted of foreword, two body chapters, conclusion and the references. Chapter one gave an introduction to this paper and reviewed the former research. On the basis of previous studies, in Chapter two, tried to discuss about the Qian’s literature and art's viewpoint. For this purpose, this paper take the theory of Chinese Classical Poetics as the object of the research, he did particularly pay attention to the philosophic flavor in Poetry and the relationships of philosophic flavor, pragmatic motivation. In short, in the course of his appreciation of literature and art, he used his way of speculative & philosophical thinking, analyzed the problem from various aspects, everything he writes demonstrates the depth of his sensibility. I think that Qian did his research in his separate ways and own idea, established his own independent domains. Chapter three, tried to analyze about Qian’s critical viewpoint of literary criticism. Qian take the reader on a voyage between ancient and modern, and between Chinese and Western canons, thereby gradually building a methodology and different thought process towards literary & scholarly writing that gave Qian’s critic work a unique style. The purpose of his literary criticism is search for the common poetry mind & literary mind, and the literary value of the Chinese & Western literature. Qian discussed about a lot of theme in his book, it is not only the style of the poet, but also writing style, temperament, talent and learning, romantic charm, rhetoric, at all times and in all lands, old and new, a state of poet. Qian tried to thoroughly the discourse of literature all the time, and he enlarged the horizon of literature criticism. As Qian said, poetry mind and literary mind has become a literature actual appearances of all time. Between Chinese Literature and Western Literature, Qian used in the theory of merging, tried to solve the fundamental problem of Chinese literature and literary theory. Qian’s On the Art of Poetry shows that literary criticism is possible outside of the classical criticism, and it is provided new insight into Qian’s academic achievement.