名贯中西的钟鼎文博士,生于1914年,安徽人,现寓居台北,乃台湾诗界泰斗,为台湾光复后,台湾诗坛三位新诗开拓者之一(另两位一为诗人覃子豪,另一位为《现代诗》刊创办人纪弦和)。现已九旬高龄,仍然精神矍铄,笔耕不辍。奔走于两岸诗歌、文化建设事业,1991年以80高龄之躯,亲率台湾诗友前来北京参加艾青诗歌国际讨论会。他虽然身为文坛大师,但作风朴素,平等待人,与人和善,故有谦恭君子之美誉。钟鼎文先生早年入上海吴淞中国公学,后转学北京大学,1933年留学日本京都帝国大学。20世纪三十年代初,开始写作,以“番草”之笔名发表新诗,受到中国诗坛重视。抗日战争前夕回国,曾执教 Dr. Zhong Dingwen, a native of both China and the West, was born in 1914 in Anhui province. Now he lives in Taipei. He is a Taiwanese poet who is one of the pioneers of Taiwanese poetry after the restoration of Taiwan. The other two are poet Qin Zhaowao, Position for the “modern poetry” founder discipline and string). Now ninety years old, still energetic, penmanship stop. Run in the poems and cultural construction on both sides of the Strait, in 1991 with a 80-year-old man, the relatives of Taiwan poet came to Beijing to participate in Ai Qing poetry International Symposium. Although he is a literary masters, but simple style, equal treatment, and people kind, so a gentleman’s reputation. Mr. Zhong Dingwen was admitted to Shanghai Wusong Chinese School in his early years, transferred to Peking University in 1933, and studied at Kyoto Imperial University in 1933. In the early 1930s, he began to write and published new poems under the pseudonym “草草”, which is valued by Chinese poetry circles. Returned to the country before the Anti-Japanese War, had coached