吾谨是明代中期一个应该重视的文学批评家,在与李梦阳等作家的辩论交流中,他比何景明更早地批判了复古运动创作中出现的模辞现象,且思考明晰,提出了合理性更强的师意主张。其后来由写作古文辞转到养生、求道,在明代中期文学思想的转换中也具个案意义。
Wu Jin is an important literary commenter in the mid-Ming Dynasty.He criticized the phenomenon of "copy terms" in the movement of "back to the ancients" and put forward the view of "follow one's conception" in debates with Li Mengyang and other writers,and all these are earlier,clearer than He Jingming.His lately experience from writing ancient prose to laying too much stress on his health and requesting "Dao" is fairly typical among ideological trend of the mid-Ming Dynasty.