Xu Zhimo opened the collection of poems and saw the first poem, and confirmed that this was undoubtedly Lin Zixuan's collection of poems.

"The night gave me black eyes, but I used it to find light."

Although this poem is short, it is meaningful and widely circulated in the country.

Lu Xun once interpreted this poem. This is a generation of people's tenacious journey forward in the darkness and persistent pursuit of the future destiny of the country.

Many young people in China regard this poem as their pursuit, wanting to break the dark world and let light project in.

Even in London, England, Xu Zhimo had heard this poem, not to mention that he was not unfamiliar with Lin Zixuan.

Not to mention the two years of roommate time they spent at Columbia University in New York, they were in London. Whenever domestic students came to London and everyone talked about the current situation of domestic literature, Lin Zixuan was always a name that could not be avoided.

There are many rumors about Lin Zixuan.

Some admirers believe that he represents a direction of new literature. Unlike Luxun and Hu Shi, he takes a different approach and has his own path and style. He is a veritable "Three Masters of New Literature".

Some despise him as a representative of the bourgeois reformists, a borer mixed in the new literary ranks, a defender of the old-school literature in Shanghai, and a completely deceiving the world and stealing reputation.

Whether it is praise or contempt, it shows Lin Zixuan's influence in the domestic literary world.

This is Xu Zhimo’s previous view.

Today, when he saw this collection of poems, he suddenly found that Lin Zixuan's influence had broken through the country and became a world-renowned writer. He also heard that Lin Zixuan was more influential in the United States.

This is just something that happened in two years, and it's incredible.

What did Lin Zixuan look like two years ago? No one knows better than Xu Zhimo.

At that time, Lin Zixuan was tired of studying economics and advocating American liberalism. He played around all day and lived a chaotic life like those degenerate international students.

However, everything has suddenly changed since Lin Zixuan returned to China.

Perhaps, it changed since he left the United States. Xu Zhimo still remembers the meeting with Lin Zixuan in London. Lin Zixuan wrote a poem at Cambridge University, which was extremely beautiful.

Xu Zhimo sighed in his heart. He understood that the reason he was able to receive this invitation was because of Lin Zixuan.

This inevitably made him feel a little disappointed.

He didn't look down on Lin Zixuan at the time, but now he has to rely on Lin Zixuan's reputation to surround himself in the core circle of the London literary world. It has to be said to be a kind of irony.

In fact, this is his self-deprecatingness.

The reason why Xu Zhimo received the invitation was because he was a student at King's College, Cambridge University and had a certain reputation in the British upper class, otherwise he would not have received the invitation at all.

Most of the members of the Bloomsbury Group come from the Apostle Club of Cambridge University, which is world-famous.

The Cambridge Apostle Society is a secret society founded by Morris, Tennyson and Haarlem in 1820. It consists of 12 best members from Trinity College and King's College of Cambridge. It includes both undergraduates and former Cambridge students who have graduated.

The members of the apostles have to go through very strict selection, and are generally the most outstanding and intelligent people among Cambridge students.

Its purpose is to pursue the truth with a group of like-minded and close friends wholeheartedly and without reservation.

The group has a formal gathering every Saturday night, which is actually a small "Royal Society".

“The most important event in my Cambridge life was being elected as an apostle,” Virginia Woolf’s nephew Julian Bell wrote in 1930: “I really felt that I was sitting on the spire of Cambridge rationalism.”

By the way, this guy named Julian Bell was an extremist. In 1935, he came to China with the ideal of changing the world and applied for a professor of British literature at Wuhan University.

In the end, he failed to change China, but fell in love with a Chinese woman named Ling Shuhua.

Ling Shuhua was born in 1900 and came from a famous family.

Her literary teacher is Gu Hongming, a master who is truly knowledgeable in China and the West. Her painting teacher is Miao Jiahui, who is the painter used by Empress Dowager Cixi.

Therefore, she has high talent in literature and painting, and has outstanding appearance.

When Julian Bell met Ling Shuhua, she was already married, and her husband Chen Yuan was also a celebrity in society.

As for the result, let’s not talk about it anymore. It’s more embarrassing, anyway, it’s all about the things between men and women.

In other words, if you are not a student from Trinity College and King's College of Cambridge, you are not qualified to join this circle.

Xu Zhimo used to wander around the periphery of this circle, but now he has finally entered the core.

He calmed down and started talking with Thomas Elliott, telling Elliot about Lin Zixuan's deeds in China, mainly about Lin Zixuan's literary achievements.

In such an occasion, as a Chinese, Xu Zhimo naturally had to say good things to Lin Zixuan, and he still had this kind of demeanor.

However, when he heard Elliot's inspiration for "The Wasteland" written by Lin Zixuan, he couldn't help but be stunned, and he really wanted to tell this American who lives in Britain that these two poems were not connected at all.

"Born Water" is a satirical and accusation of the domestic political environment during the Beiyang government period, with a political metaphor.

"The Wasteland" expresses the spiritual disillusionment of Western civilization.

If the two have something in common, they are both symbolic poems.

In a vague way, Xu Zhimo seemed to have caught something.

It turns out that poetry in the East and West worlds can be connected. It turns out that poetry can be written in this way, using Eastern language to describe the Western spiritual core, or the Eastern spiritual core is expressed in Western language.

Borrow each other and integrate them.

So, a path of poetry slowly unfolded in front of Xu Zhimo.

Elliott didn't know that the oriental man had realized the truth of poetry. He heard that Lin Zixuan also wrote "Gone with the Wind" with the American Civil War as the background, and was quite interested as an American.

He likes poetry and is not very enthusiastic about novels, and "Gone with the Wind" is not as popular in the UK as in the United States.

"What is this Mr. Lin's personality?" Elliot asked curiously.

"He has a relatively free thought." Xu Zhimo replied.

Xu Zhimo still knew about Lin Zixuan two years ago. He could not say that Lin Zixuan was a playfulr, so he could only be vague.

In his communication with these British elites, he felt that these people highly praised Lin Zixuan's poetry collection. Although Eliot's strong recommendation was also because poetry is a global language.

Lin Zixuan's "A Generation" is a collection of poems by famous Chinese poets for decades, and each poem is a classic.
Chapter completed!