中国诗学是中国文化精神的一部分, 今人用现代分化独立的纯文学理论去理解它, 往往失其真相。中国诗学的学术文化性格, 同光体诗家沈曾植, 或可谓知之最深。深入分析沈氏对于诗史嬗变与学术文化的关联, 诗境创造与玄理儒佛, 诗风“三关”等方面的种种认识, 将有助于了解华夏学术的内在理路, 重建诗学的文化认知, 并丰富20世纪中国诗学的总图景。

Chinese poetics is a part of Chinese cultural spirit. If our contemporaries just use a modern, divided and independent theory of pure literature to understand it, it tends to lose its truth. Shen Zengzhi (1851-1922), a well-known poet, had a most profound understanding of academic, cultural characters of Chinese poetics. Through analyses of the connection between transformations of poetical history and academic culture and between poetical creation and Confucianism and Buddhism, we may apprehend internal trends of Chinese learning and reconstruct our cultural recognition of poetics so as to enrich the general picture of the twentieth-century Chinese poetics.