The author not only distinguished the mental goodness beauty and interest goodness beauty,and put for forward the moral goodness beauty on the basis of weak goodness beauty,but also reinterpreted the connotation of "poems expressing wills",realizing that Ci inherits the poem transmission tradition of Confucianism.
他以先验研究作为基础,尝试从美感的基本心灵机能出发对词体美感特质进行剖析,认为词体表现的是超越性的美感,在词中则具体表现为艺术美、自然美和德善之美,其中德善之美是《词学抉微》在词学上最重要的创获。