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A Chinese Aesthetics Reading of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey - with a Comparison to Chunjiang Huayue Ye


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1 School of Foreign Languages, Central University of Finance and Economics PO Box 100081, 39 Xueyuannanlu, Haidian, Beijing, China
 

The nature poetry written by English Romantic poet Wordsworth is a milestone in English literary history. Its inbuilt aesthetics is much similar with that of ancient Chinese Mountain-Water poetry. The most remarkable aspect is the fusion of feeling and scene, in which philosophy, aesthetics, and poetics are interwoven into a thematic unity. In this perspective, one Chinese nature poem Chunjiang Huayue Ye written by early Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu can be well compared. This mutual illumination not only yields a dialogical channel, more importantly, it also discovers the potential values of the two: first, Wordsworth's unique aesthetical awareness is forwarded; second, it helps to globalize and modernize ancient Chinese literary theory.

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Wordsworth, Nature poetry, Chinese Aesthetics, Comparison.
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Bai Li-Bing
School of Foreign Languages, Central University of Finance and Economics PO Box 100081, 39 Xueyuannanlu, Haidian, Beijing, China

Abstract


The nature poetry written by English Romantic poet Wordsworth is a milestone in English literary history. Its inbuilt aesthetics is much similar with that of ancient Chinese Mountain-Water poetry. The most remarkable aspect is the fusion of feeling and scene, in which philosophy, aesthetics, and poetics are interwoven into a thematic unity. In this perspective, one Chinese nature poem Chunjiang Huayue Ye written by early Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu can be well compared. This mutual illumination not only yields a dialogical channel, more importantly, it also discovers the potential values of the two: first, Wordsworth's unique aesthetical awareness is forwarded; second, it helps to globalize and modernize ancient Chinese literary theory.

Keywords


Wordsworth, Nature poetry, Chinese Aesthetics, Comparison.

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