（Wai-lim Yip）

葉維廉是活躍在亞美兩洲臺港大陸三地的雙語詩人，翻譯家，詩學美學理論家，對比較文學、比較詩學有突破性的貢獻。葉氏1937年生於廣東中山，先後畢業於臺大外文系、師大英語研究所，並獲艾荷華大學美學碩士及普林斯頓大學比較文學博士。早期詩作〈賦格〉、〈降臨〉及〈荒原〉（翻譯）等曾對香港和臺灣的中生代發生過不少的影響，在臺灣讀書時為《現代文學》及《創世紀》成員，以現代詩及現代詩論崛起，並數度獲獎，包括教育部文學獎及入選為十大傑出詩人。

葉氏詩作、理論、翻譯著作五十餘種，重要的有《賦格》、《三十年詩》、《比較詩學》、《歷史．傳釋．美學》、《解讀現代．後現代》、《中國詩學》、《道家美學與西方文化》，以及Ezra Pound’s Cathay, Hiding the Universe: Poems of Wang Wei, Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres等。近十年來，臺灣大陸相繼展出他的手稿和數度為他的理論和詩作舉辦國際性研討會。2002-2004年安徽教育出版社出版其全集九大卷。鑒於他巨大的成果，2005年加州大學授予卓越教授榮譽。

Wai-lim Yip has been active as a bicultural poet, translator, critic and theorist with special contributions to East-West comparative literature, aesthetics and comparative poetics between Taiwan and America for over 45 years. He was born in Guangdong Province, China, in 1937. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English in Taiwan, his MFA from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Wai-lim Yip has written more than 50 books in two languages, many of which have been widely read in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, chief among them, Fugue, Thirty Years of Poetry, Comparative Poetics（《比較詩學》）, Chinese Poetics, Daoist Aesthetics and Western Culture. In recent years he has been honored with exhibitions devoted to his archives and conferences devoted to his (Chinese) Poetry, as well as publication of his Complete (Chinese) Works in 9 thick volumes. In view of his prolific outstanding achievements, the University of California, San Diego has conferred him the title of Distinguished Professor.