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| Classicization as a Problem——Wen Yiduo's Modern Chinese Poetry： An Anthology and the Reconstruction of the Evaluative Coordinate of New Poetry |
| Fang Chang'an |
| (College of Chinese Language and Literature， Wuhan University， Wuhan 430072) |
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Abstract Modern Chinese Poetry： An Anthology was edited by Wen Yiduo in his last years. The “efficacy” of the selected poets and poems becoming classics was not positive. However， when it came to the poets truly celebrated by him， quite a few of them were classicized. This phenomenon was related to his principles of evaluating new poetry and the characteristics of classicization of new poetry in the past hundred years. On the one hand， he evaluated new poetry with a view of “yesterday” and the standard of classical literature. Inheriting the tradition of “feelings” in Chinese lyrics， he prefered the poems that wrote about family and state， and people's semtiments， and thus， selected poems that embodied a modern lyrical approach. On the other hand， in a sense of “today” and with the consciousness of translation， he attached importance to those poems that were set in the context of war，and expressed the idea of democracy with Chinese feelings and international concerns. The fact that a large amount of the poets included in Modern Chinese Poetry： An Anthology became obscure while the unselected poets became classics has constituted a historical mystery. It reflects the modern standard of Wen's selected poems and the evaluation scale of new poetry in the past century counteract the “classical” view， which reveals the possibility of reconstructing a new coordinate and a set of new principles for evaluating new poetry.
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Received: 30 January 2023
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2023, Vol. 62 
