《御览诗》诗人选录简论(二)

Overall Discussion on the Selected Poets in Poems for Imperial Reading (2)

《御览诗》是唐人选唐诗中唯一由皇帝钦命编纂而成的一个诗歌选本。因其选录的诗人多不为后世所知,故不为后世所重视且多遭讥评,但将《御览诗》放置到当时的社会背景中,且与选家的审美标准相结合进行考察,其个中缘由均能得到解释,可以说令狐楚《御览诗》的诗人选录,较为公正客观的反映出元和诗坛原貌,从而为了解元和诗坛提供珍贵的第一手资料,这也正是《御览诗》的价值所在。

Poems for Imperial Reading is the unique poetry anthology in Tang Poems collected by persons in Tang Dynasty and compiled because of the Emperor＇s order.The poets in this book are not so famous that they were denied and even jeered by people of aftertime.If the readers study the poets in Poems for Imperial Reading in their special social background and the collectors＇ aesthetical standard,they can find out the reason.Among so many studies and researches,selected poets in Poems for Imperial Reading,compiled by LING-HU Chu,reproduces the origional appearance of peotry field during Yuanhe period in Emperor Tang Xian-zong,one Emperor of the Tang Dynasty objectively and reasonablely.It supplies firsthand information in the study of the literature in this period of time.This is just the value of Poems for Imperial Reading.