宋代是詩學的高峰期,詞學的發展也相當迅猛,形成了詞學史上的第一個高峰。就宋代詩學與詞學的整體關系來看,主要是詩學對詞學影響日益深化的過程。隨著詞體的演進以及"以詩為詞"實踐的深入和擴大,詞學家自覺或不自覺地受詩學思想的影響,逐漸改變著自己的詞學觀念。就詩學影響詞學的過程來看,經歷了以詩教思想批判詞體、以詩學理念解釋詞體,進而形成了融入詩學思想而又注意到詞體特征的新詞體觀的過程。在這個過程中,詞學家對詞體的認識逐漸更新且深化,至南宋中后期新的詞體觀念基本成熟,并對后世產生了深遠的影響。

The Song Dynasty was a high point in poetics,and also a period when ci poetics developed rapidly,resulting in the first high tide in the history of ci studies.Once the ci fell into the hands of the scholar gentry,they were attracted by the magnetism of this powerful poetic form and made it their preferred verse form.Critics played a marked role in the evolution of ci styles.At first they used didactic poetic theory to criticize and exclude it;then they provided an exegesis of ci using the ideas of existing poetics,bringing the ci form on to the track of shi poetics;and finally,they developed new styles of ci which merged with the character and qualities of previous poetic forms.One could say that the history of the development of the Song c iis a history of the influence exerted by the existing poetics on ci studies,a history in which both learned from each other and blended together and in whichci poetics gradually accepted shi poetics and was itself changed.