七年前《文史知识》“治学之道”专栏邀我撰稿,盛情难却,乃于《研究古典诗学的体会》一文(刊《文史知识》1995年第1期)中谈了五点体会,其中一点是:“选好治学的主攻方向与‘重点堡垒’。”我以为,中国古典诗学历史悠久,范围广泛,诗学论著汗牛充栋。但人生也有涯,知也无涯,要想在有限的生命旅程穷尽中国 Seven years ago, “Literature and History Knowledge,” “The Way of Learning,” invited me to write a draft, passionate but difficult, but in the “study of classical poetics experience” article (published “literary knowledge” 1995 the first period) Five points of experience, one of which is: “The main direction of selected scholarship and ’key fortress’.” I think that China has a long history of classical poetry, a wide range of poetic studies. But life is also career, knowledge knows no boundaries, in order to exhaustion of China in the limited life journey