文学史研究的新境界——读毛水清著《隋唐五代文学史》

毛水清所著《隋唐五代文学史》以诗歌作为研究重点，并扩大其了研究范围，注意揭示文学发展的历史进程，论述了不少被忽略的诗人及其作品，还对前人观点提出了许多不同看法。其最精彩的部分是对作品的分析。其写作方法是溯源辨流，并进行比较研究，以显示作家作品之异同。书中用语准确、简练、流畅，渗透着优美的散文笔调。该书在中国文学史研究方面达到了一个新的境界。

On Mao Shuiqing's Literary History of the Sui,Tang and Five Dynasties

Literary History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties by Mao Shuiqing concentrates on poetic study. Focusing on the progress of literary history, it widens the scope of research by discussing the poets and their poems that have been rarely studied before, and advances some fresh views that are different from those of the predecessors'. The highlight the book is the literary criticism. The book traces the sources and makes comparative study so as to reveal the differences and similarities among works of the writers. With elegant prose style, Mao Shuiqing is accurate in diction, brief and smooth in style. The book has reached a new dimension concerning the research of Chinese literary history.