大英图书馆藏清代广州富桂堂刻本《太白诗话》,包含了小说与诗歌选本两种体例,前半部分的小说描绘了李白的传奇人生,在叙事中穿插29首诗来代替人物的说话,其中22首诗出于李白之口,有助于人物形象的塑造和故事情节的推动;这29首诗多采用七绝、七律的体裁,名家诗作少,无名氏作品居多。后半部分的诗歌选本共收唐诗59首,包括李白诗歌56首,其后杜甫诗歌3首,皆为名篇名作。《太白诗话》所选李白诗歌,首列10首乐府诗,其余46首诗按照五古、七古、五律、七律、五排、五绝、七绝的规律来排列,与沈德潜《唐诗别裁集》的编排顺序相一致。《太白诗话》所选李白诗以五绝、七绝为主,集中在闺怨、赠别、咏怀三种题材和自然清新的风格;56首李白诗中,有37首重出于《唐诗别裁集》,19首新见。《太白诗话》是现存中国古籍的一个特殊范例,是小说与诗歌选本相结合的复合型文本,也是李白接受史研究的新个案。

The book of“Taibai poetry”in the British Library printed in Guangzhou Fu Gui Tang in the Qing Dynasty, includes two styles of fiction and poetry anthology. The first half of the fiction depicts Li Bai’s legendary life, in the narration interspersed with 29 poems instead of the characters speech, including 22 poems recited by Li Bai. The poems help promoting the characters and the story, most of the poems written by anonymous in the type of Qijue or Qilv. The second part of the poetry anthology including 56 poems of Li Bai and 3 poems of Du Fu, arranges in order of types of Qigu, Wugu, Wulv, Qilv, Wupai, Wujue, Qijue. Compared with the “An Anthology of Tang Poems” written by Shen Deqian, the poems of Li Bai in the “Taibai poetry” are mainly in two types of Wujue, Qijue, and three themes of boudoir, parting, chanting, and the style of natural fresh. In 56 poems of Li Bai, there are also 38 poems collected in the “An Anthology of Tang Poems”, and 18 poems not. The “Taibai poetry” is a special example of the extant Chinese ancient books, and a new case of Li Bai’s poetry anthology and the research on reception history.