| Description |
xv, 440 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The beginning of the High Tʻang and the first-generation poets Early Tʻang and High Tʻang -- The poets of transition -- The social context -- Wang Wei: the artifice of simplicity -- The first generation: capital poets of the Kʼai-yüan Tsʼui Hao Chʼu Kuang-hsi -- Meng Hao-jan: the freedom beyond decorum Chʼang Chien -- Wang Chʼang-ling and Li Chʼi: new interests in capital poetry -- Li Po: a new concept of genius Wu Yün -- Kao Shih -- pt. 2. The "later born": the second and third generations of the High Tʻang Tsʼen Shen: the search for difference -- Tu Fu -- Fu-ku revival: Yüan Chieh, the Chʼieh-chung chi, and the Confucian intellectuals Poets of the Chʼieh-chung chi The intellectuals -- Minor poets of the Kʼai-yüan and Tʼien-pao -- The traditions of capital poetry in the later eighth century -- Literary activity in the southeast The poet-monks Chiao-jan The linked verses Ku Kʼuang -- Wei Ying-wu: an elegy for the High Tʻang |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 427-434 |
| Subject |
Chinese poetry -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
80000141 |
| ISBN |
0300023677 |
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