论胡适《尝试集》自序的诗史价值

The Historical Value of Author’s Preface in Attempt Collection by Hu Shi

胡适是早期新诗的倡导者之一,其作品《尝试集》是第一部个体创作的新诗集,在中国新诗史上具有开创性的意义。《尝试集》于1920年3月由亚东图书馆出版,在两年多的时间内,经历了四个版本的流变。从初版本到四版本,胡适先后为《尝试集》撰写了三篇自序:《尝试集·自序》(初版)、《再版自序》以及《四版自序》。这三篇自序意义重大,涵盖了创作、批评、理论、史学等各个方面,是研究胡适新诗理论及其新诗创作的重要资源。它不仅体现了胡适新诗观的演变图景,而且再现了新诗发生期的批评语境,具有重要的互文性价值。另外,胡适自序的写作方式及发表方式,为《尝试集》经典地位的形成客观上起到了重要的作用。

Hu Shi is one of the initiators of new poetry in the 1920s,and his work Attempt Collection is the first new poetry collection created by individual,which is of groundbreaking significance in the history of Chinese new poetry. Attempt Collection was published by Yadong Library in March 1920,and had gone through four editions in two years. From the first edition to the fourth edition, Hu Shi had written three prefaces: the first edition, the second edition and the fourth edition. These three prefaces are of great significance, covering creation, criticism, theory, history and other aspects, and are important resources for studying Hu Shi’s creation and theory of new poetry. This serie of prefaces not only reflected the evolving landscape of Hu Shi’s view of new poetry,but also represented the critical context of the new poetry’s emergence period, which has important value of intertextuality. In addition, the way of writing and publishing of these prefaces had played an important role in the formation of the classical status of the collection.