吴组缃先生是作家,又是教授。他讲课时常以作家的视点来讲中国古典文学,也用作家的手法来写讲稿和评论文章,自有其独具的慧眼,独到的见解。我刚上燕京大学中文系时,就听高班的同学讲,清华大学有一位吴组缃教授,讲课是非常叫座的。那位高班旧学去清华旁听他的名著选读课,回来后谈起吴先生讲的作品,那么津津有味, Mr. Wu is a writer and a professor. His lectures often speak Chinese classical literature from the writer’s point of view. He also uses the methods of his writers to write speeches and comment articles, and has his unique eye-opening and unique insights. When I first went to the Department of Chinese at Yenching University, I heard classmates from a senior class speaking. Tsinghua University has a professor Wu Zuji and the lecture is very popular. That senior high school to Tsinghua to listen to his famous reading class, came back and talked about Mr. Wu’s work, so relish,