论严嵩《南还稿》的艺术成就

Artistic Achievements of Yan Song’s Nan Huan Gao (南还稿)

严嵩为明嘉靖朝要臣,然囿于“奸臣”之名,学林对其诗名诸多贬斥。《南还稿》为其晚年最后一部诗集,然学界目前对此关涉不足。通观《南还稿》诸诗,较之严嵩此前诗作,诗风转为自然朴实,诗作多抒真情实感。除此,于《南还稿》诗中,可观得其作品中景情交融之纯熟、修辞手法之停当、意境烘托之洗练的作诗技巧,于诗歌创作而言,诸般技巧实则已至圆融。《南还稿》不仅显示严嵩晚年诗歌创作的艺术成就,亦可反映其晚年心态,有一定的史学价值。

Yan Song was an important official in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty;however,his poetic works are belittled for his fame of a treacherous court official.As the last collection of poems of Yan Song,the poetic style of Nan Huan Gao(南还稿)are natural and simple in which most of the poems express true feelings.The book reflects Yan Song’s high skill in scenery and feeling description,rhetoric device usage and artistic conception refinement.It should be an important poetic work in the Ming Dynasty.Besides,it is historically valuable in the study of Yan Song’s mentality in his later years.