“王世贞晚年定论说”考辨

Research on the Conclusion of Wang Shi-zhen's Last Word that Qian Qian-yi Had Put forward

王世贞作为“后七子”的领袖,是明代文学史上的关键人物。钱谦益所提出的“王世贞晚年定论”说,说明了王世贞晚年思想的转变,影响颇大。但这种说法是建立在并不完全可信的论据基础之上的。同时,后代文学史一般认为前后七子提倡“文必秦汉,诗必盛唐”,坚持食古不化的形式主义文风,也是对他们的片面理解。

Wang shi-zhen is the chief of later seven poets in Ming Dynasty. The conclusion of Wang Shi-zhen's last word that Qian Qian-yi put forward is hypotheses only. It is a sort of means that Qian Qian-yi had criticized on later seven poets, and not a actual whole describing on Wang Shi-zhen'thinking of old age. It is not comprehensive that later-day literature criticism regarded the literary opinions made by later seven poets as formalism.