Feng, Guozhong

Feng, Guozhong. Bailun he Yingguo gu dian zhu yi chuan tong [ID D26477].
Chih Chih-yu : Feng's essay is one of the very few essays which treat the artistic aspects of Byron's work. Despite the traces of the Marxist viewpoint, his ideas and the basic approach to the subject are marked by the influence of modern Western scholarship, which was the first instance since the founding of socialist China. Byron's affiliation with the classicist poetics was reflected first of all in 'his carrying forward and developing the fine classicist tradition of portraying human nature and human society'. According to Feng, Byron's method of nature description conforms to classicist creative principles. He contended that Byron's real interest in nature description was human nature and human society.