鍾玲自一九八六年在台灣出版了《現代中國繆司－台灣女詩人作品析論》，以西方女性主義的理論視角來探討當代台灣女詩人的新詩作品，便成了她持續研究的一項課題。她主要援用美國當代女性主義理論家蕭華特（Elaine Showalter）的理論，兼採其他歐美女性主義理論家的說法。基本上，鍾玲主要以蕭氏所提出的女性批評（gynocriticism）模式作為她女性主義詩學的理據，並以此檢視台灣女詩人的作品，仿蕭華特的《她們自己的文學－從勃朗黛到萊辛的英國女小說家》（A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing）一書，在《現代中國繆司》中建構當代台灣女性詩史。本文據此考察鍾玲的「女性詩史」與「女性批評」，以探究其女性詩學的底蘊，並同時檢討其詩學所遭遇的困境

Zhong Ling published The Modern Chinese Muse: An Analysis of Taiwanese Poetess Works in Taiwan in 1986, where she examined the contemporary poetesses' poetry from the perspective of Western feminist theory. This has become a subject of her ongoing research. She mainly invoked the theory of Elaine Showalter, a contemporary American feminist theorist, and simultaneously took the view of other European and American feminist theorists to shape her poetics. Basically, Zhong Ling used the gynocriticism model proposed by Showalter as her basis for feminist poetics in examining the works of Taiwanese poetesses. Following Showalter's model of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, she articulated the contemporary history of female poetry in Taiwan in The Modern Chinese Muse. This essay examines Zhong Ling's ＂poetesses' history＂ and ＂gynocriticism＂ in order to explore her feminist poetics, and at the same time investigates the difficult problems facing her poetics