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Deng Hanyi, an outstanding publisher and poet in the early Qing Dynasty, writes lots of excellent poems, and he is also a flagman in the course of constituting the early Qing poetics. He devotes the whole life to anthologizing and commenting on the early Qing poems, which not only instructs the poetry writing of that time, but also contributes a lot to the storage of the early Qing poems. His Poems Anthology is a large poetic anthology as well as a masterpiece among the early Qing's poetic anthologies, and it is of great documentary and poetic values.Poems Anthology consists of three parts, altogether forty-one volumes, in which 15,000 poems of 1,824 poets are anthologized and commented on. Deng Hanyi is familiar with these poets and almost all these collected poems are primary sources. When anthologizing poems, Deng Hanyi not only focuses on writing biographies for these poets and remarking on their personalities and poems from multiple angles, but also appends many historical materials, which embodies Poems Anthology's documental significance. And its documental significance mainly lies in four aspects: firstly, for most anthologized poems are primary sources, they are of great collation values; Secondly, it is helpful to trace some lost poems for it contains many minor poets' works that haven't been handed down and major poets' poems that have not been anthologized; Thirdly, it is of great literary historical significance. Its biographies contain many poets' born and living places and their polite names, which can be used to supplement the current documental deficiency. Lots of information on poets' lives, communications, creations, associations, poetic activities etc. can enrich other materials and testify official history; it can also be used to study poets' birth and death, relatives, teachers, travels, characters and the early Qing poetic writing and its influences; Finally, Deng Hanyi's anthologizing process is a course of collecting and sorting out poems. In addition, it is also a disseminating process of the early Qing poems.Besides, Poems Anthology contains poems written in the first 50 years of Qing, and the anthologized poets come from almost all the administrative districts. They have various political stances as well as family origins and belong to different schools. Poems Anthology is a comprehensive history of the early Qing poems. Meanwhile, his poetics propositions embodied in Poems Anthologyt not only display the early Qing poets' rethought over the middle and late Ming poems' advantages and disadvantages, but also reflect the early Qing poets' attempt to formulate their own poetics.