Stephen Owen, Ph.D. Yale, is James Bryant Conant Professor oWilliam G. Thalmann, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of Classics atf Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. the University of Southern California. His publications incHis books include The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High lude The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in T'ang; Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: An Omen of ththe Odyssey. e World; Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature; and An Anthology of Chinese Literatur...