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Excerpt from The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: A Study of Thought and Pattern in Chinese Literature
Once he characterized the whole Book of Poetry by one Single line It has no undisciplined thought.5 The Virtues of the Poetry being such, no Aristotelian defense of the poetic art is necessary.
However, it would be unjust to say that Confucius lacked esthetic appreciation and sensitivity. We are told that at one time he was so enthralled by the beauty of the Shao6 that for three months he did not know the taste of meat.7 This subjective experience, however, did not in¿uence his attitude toward art. Because of his authority elsewhere, his didacticism was also firmly established as one Of the chief traditions in the field of literary criticism.
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