It＇s urgent task to strengthen
the documented studies on the Yuan poe try , which were a week link in the ring of the Yuan literature . The essence of the documented studies on
the Yuan poetry lies in the studies on the
poets and their works in the Yuan dynasty . The
text here
analyses the material sources of existing Yuan poetical works , and sets down the situations of the Yuan poets b y comprehensively examining their lives . It also defines the domain of the Yuan
Poetry both from the macroscopic view and from the microscopic one . By all the se methods , the historical characteristics of the Yuan poetry are concluded : the development tendency was confined by a pair of contradictions concerning the wide-spread sovereign areas and a short period of the state founding ; the prosp erity of the Yuan poetry was directly caused by the abolishment of the imperial examination ; the ordinary consideration that the traditional poetry and prose f aded away and lent the vacancy to the newly developing style of "mouthpiece"(代言文体)is worth being discussed on, as the prosperity of the Yuan poetry was no less than that in the Northern and Southern Song dynasties. The text again gives a list of names of the principal poets and a series of fundamental numbers of the Yuan poetry by quantitative analyses.
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