Beyond Spring: Tz'u Poems of the Sung Dynasty

ISBN-13: 9780231096799 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 274 str.

Julie Landau; Julie Landau

Opis

This anthology of poetry from the Sung Dynasty, translated into English, represents the golden age of the Tz'u period in the 10th-12th centuries AD. These translations of an important lyric form in Chinese literature strive to capture the phrasing and rhythms crucial to Tz'u. Organized by individual poets, the collection includes an introduction to symbols and allusions which enables the reader to discover references in specific poems. The text also contains biographies of the Chinese poets, a glossary of terms, and an historical chart of Chinese poetic genres.