彭士望的文论和散文批评

On PENG Shi-wang's Comments on The Style Writing and Criticsims of Prose

彭士望的散文思想的核心和灵魂是“真实有用”。为使文章“真实有用”,他提倡“意”、“法”并重,提倡素朴自然的文风;反对机械摹拟字雕句琢,反对学习八股文。他评价了明代中叶以后很多散文作家,尤其是江西的散文作家。他对晚期浪漫主义思潮持批判态度。他提倡“真实有用”源于对明代后期“虚美相高”的学风和文风的反感,而这种反感又来源于对明亡教训的总结,是对国家、对社会负责的表现。

The core and soul of PENG Shi-wang's prose thought is “real and practical”.He advocated placement of equal importance on both“idea”and“law”to make articles real and practical,a plain natural style of writing against a mechanical copy of weighing every word and eight-part essay studing,PENG made Comments upon many prose writers after the middle period of the Ming Dynasty,especially,upon those from Jianxi,He held a critic attitued towards the romanticism of the late Ming Dynasty.His advocation of “real and practical”came from his dislike of the impractical academic discipline and the style of writing during the late Ming Dynasty and this dislike of his was originated from his conclusion of the lesson from the down fall of the Ming Dynasty,which was the manifestation of his responsibility for the country and the society he lived in.