夏敬觀是近代開光體後期詩人，於唐詩研究中，特重孟郊。本文由同光體重詩品與人品閱(系的詩學觀為基礎探討夏氏體認孟郊詩的深度:先討論夏氏對孟郊生平隱嵩時期的觀點，再綜論他對孟郊詩的窮、奇、深重新作出評價，及為郊詩於中唐詩史中定位。論文又用比較研究法，通過與同期論者華忱之和間一多的觀點作比較，考察夏氏對孟郊詩的體認角度，和他的孟郊詩研究於近代詩史上的意義。

Xia Jingguan， a poet of the later Tong Guang style， places particular emphasis on Meng Jiao in his study of Tang poetry. This article discusses Xia's views on Meng Jiao's reclusion at Mount Songshan and analyzes his re-evaluation of Meng's poems in terms of “exhaustiveness，\"“eccentricity，\"and “depth."Itthen goes into Xia's positioning of Meng Jiao's poems in the history of Middle Tang Poetry. Through a comparison with Xia's contemporaries such as Hua Chenzhi and Wen Yiduo， this article investigates Xia's perception of Meng Jiao's poems and the significance of his Meng Jiao study in the history of poetry in modern China