From Romanticism To Classicism

Although there is no special composing on Aesthetics, Xu Zhimo still touched upon it by way of essays. Maybe the huge achievement he obtained in poetry writing, people tend to ignore the effort he had made, meanwhile, criticism research about him is focus on text of poesy.This thesis is to reveal the aesthetics idea of Xu Zhimo from the angle of the humanities, which is uplift to resist materialized civilization. There are two phases, one is the period of Romanticism, and the other is the period that turning to Classicism.The Romanticism period .In this phase, because of the influence of philosopher Bertrand Russell, Xu Zhimo's attitude to science changed from adoration to criticism. At last, he gave up his original intention to be a specialist in political and economic field, and chose the career of writer, accepted the Romanticism. His thought about nature and literature reflected the viewpoint of the humanities, which is the core of modernity."Nature,"is the symbol of spirit freedom (including instinct consciousness of human being.). Xu zhimo advised to find original humanity in"nature". The essence of literature is the hypostatic spirit, so the emotion is the most important element in literature. Actually, Xu Zhimo'pursued the Literature's aesthetic.In the latter period, Xu Zhimo accepted the influence of"the new humanism", which was also considering about the modern civilization. At the result, Xu Zhimo agreed with the classicism aesthetic idea , the rational abstention. But meanwhile his idea also appeared character of Romanticism. The distinguished effort he made in this time was the poetry theory on rules and forms.