仇垛为民国时期金陵著名教育家与词人,五十之后始肆力为词,词学交游广泛,但作词能不为时风所囿。早期转益多师,出入南北宋诸家,于北宋词人所得尤多,且受相对闲适生活的限制,词作多呈现出清丽和婉、闲雅蕴藉的特征;后期由于世变时运及个人遭际的影响,词的情感内涵与审美风貌发生较大变化,显得更为清空、冷峻、峭拔,词境词心较接近宋末词人,诚不失为民国词坛一大作手。
QIU Cai devoted himself into the writing of Ci after the age of 50. Being friends of many com- posers of Ci, he avoided being confined to the current style. In the early period of his writing, he was under the instruction of many advisors and influenced by famous composers of both South and North Song Dynasty, especially by composers of North Song Dynasty, which gave his work a style of gentle, refreshing, elegant and leisure. In the later period, however, affected by the change of society and his own experience, the emotional connotation and aesthetic feature in this Ci changed into emptiness, cold and vigorous, which was closer to the style of the composers of South Song Dynasty. He was certainly an important composer of Ci in the period of the Republic of China.