Abstract:  While generally recognized as a preeminent philologist, Wang Yinglin also distinguished himself in literary studies and is particularly known for his philologyinformed approaches in the study of literary works. Though poetics is not his specialty, his critical practice demonstrates the prevailing trend of poetry criticism of Southern Song Dynasty, which, with its emphasis on the source study of words and allusions, is of the category of broad intertextual inquiry. Wang’s unique contribution to poetics lies in the fact that he has not only provided correct texts and proper interpretation of figures of speech but also offered new understanding of some issues in literary history since as a man of great erudition, he is quick to discern similarities in ancient and contemporary poetic creations. His poetics is elucidated in his book Kunxue Jiwen and has exerted a profound influence on poetry criticism of later generations and particularly inspired the poetics of Qing Dynasty.

Key words:  Wang Yinglin, Kunxue Jiwen, influence on the poetics