No doubt, Master Wang Guo Wei 王國維‘s 人間詞話 is the most recognisable review / critic on traditional Chinese lyric poems. I have one of the publications for many years, but I had never gone through the entire book. I find most of these publications are difficult to read especially when they are composed with other so-called explanation / guide reading.
As Master Wang pointed out right in the beginning, the most important thing for lyric poems is about artistic conception 意境。Even Master Wang himself could not be able to use words to express the artistic conception. He could only cite the original scripts for the readers to visualise themselves. Having the guide reading seems to take the readers one step further away from the original appreciation.
About 10 years ago, I made my own PDF copy in a traditional top-down style. It contains only Master Wang original words. I spent a couple of hours to go through it the first time this evening.
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