关于《读书后》所体现的王世贞晚年文学思想的变化，钱谦益在《列朝诗集小传》中尚未讲清。 王世贞晚年并未放弃讲求格调的诗文复古主张，而是对与之不尽相同的倾向采取了包容态度。批评态度 的变化，实质是审美视角的转变：由早年关注诗文外在的艺术风貌，转向更多关注作品之外的人品学识 和章句之外的旨趣风味。 With regard to the changes of Wang Shizhen’s literary thoughts reflected in his later years after his reading, Qian Qianyi has not made it clear in the “Biography of the Book of Songs towards the North”. In his later years, Wang Shizhen did not give up his emphasis on style of poetry and retro style, but adopted an inclusive attitude toward the same tendency. The change of critical attitude is essentially the change of the aesthetic perspective: from the early years concerned with the external artistic style of poetry, more attention to the outside of the work of the character of knowledge and chapter outside the purport of flavor.