中国传统诗话、词话中,王国维的《人间词话》有着最广泛的读者。就影响力来说,近百年来,大约没有第二部诗文评著作可以和它相并列。为什么而立之年的王国维撰著的这篇不长的词话,能够成为20世纪学术精典,深受读者喜爱呢?这可能是此书的读者掩卷而思的一个问题。我想,这个问题可以从不同角度去解答。 In Chinese traditional poetry and words, Wang Guowei has the most extensive readership of “human speech”. In terms of influence, in the last hundred years, no second poetic literary criticism can be tied to it. Why is this short period of time written by Wang Guowei, who was able to establish himself in the 20th century, can become a 20th-century scholarly discipline and is very much enjoyed by his readers? This may be one of the questions that the readers of this book have overshadowed and thought of. I think this question can be answered from different angles.