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Book SynopsisThis volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live-character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*Profound Learning, Personal Knowledge, and Poetic Vision, pg. 3*Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and Its Relation to Chinese Cosmology, pg. 32*The Paradox of Poetics and the Poetics of Paradox, pg. 49*The Self's Perfect Mirror: Poetry as Autobiography, pg. 71*Description of Landscape in Early Six Dynasties Poetry, pg. 105*The Decline and Revival of Feng-ku (Wind and Bone): On the Changing Poetic Styles from the Chien-an Era through the High T'ang Period, pg. 130*Verses from on High: The Ascent of T'ai Shan, pg. 167*The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry, pg. 217*The Development of Han and Wei Yueh-fu as a High Literary Genre, pg. 255*The Legacy of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Yiiehju Tradition and Its Further Development in T'ang Poetry, pg. 287*The Nature of the Quatrain from the Late Han to the High T'ang, pg. 296*The Aesthetics of Regulated Verse, pg. 332*Contributors, pg. 387*Index, pg. 391*Studies on China, pg. 407
