《明诗纪事》有陈田按语约997条,内容涉及述诗人轶事、考诗人交游、评诗人诗风、论诗人影响、明确收录原则、考查作品流传、分析作品背景、点评诗中佳句、纠作品归属之误、纠作者生平之误、补文献之阙漏等方面,是研究明代诗歌与陈田文学思想的重要资料。 There are about 997 pieces of narrative in the Ming Dynasty, covering the anecdotes about the poets, visiting the poets and discussing the poet’s poetic style, on the poet’s influence, including the principle of collection, checking the circulation of the works, analyzing the background of the works, It is an important material to study Ming Dynasty poetry and Chen Tian’s literary thoughts in terms of the errors of ownership of the corrective works, the mistakes of the correlative authors and the lack of supplementary documents.