Gu Zhenguan, a Ci poet of the early Qing Dynasty, once maintained that the“influential upper-class in- tellectuals” had been the major driving force in advancing the development of the Ci-poetry of the time, a claim that this paper is skeptical of. The paper argues that the revival of Ci-poetry in the Qing Dynasty is mainly attributable to intellectuals at middle and lower political levels. Prominent officials and eminent personages, out of their defen- sive play-safe mentality, tend to weaken or deconstruct the robust and free-swinging ethos embodied in the creation of Ci-poetries, that is to say, their poetic creations exhibit double characteristics of conforming to the transformation and progress of poetic trends on the one hand and sticking to their tardiness and reluctance in the face of the tidal waves of poetic innovation and progressivism on the other hand. 0nly when those influential upper-class intellectu- als actively share the mainstream poetic ethos of the time can they make themselves stand out in terms of their his- torical positions.%文章对清初词人顾贞观提出的“大有力者”倡导词坛的说法提出质疑，认为促成清词中兴的是政治地位中下层的词人，达官贵人出于求稳心态，往往对词创作中雄健直率之气进行淡化或解构。他们的创作有顺应词风更新的一面，也有在创新抗争精神面前显示滞后性和退缩性的一面。“大有力者”只有走进词创作精神的主潮，才能凸显其词坛地位。
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