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New Songs from a Jade Terrace - An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction (Hardcover)
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New Songs from a Jade Terrace - An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
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This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of
the Chinese classic Yu-t-'ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of
love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love
poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the
fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell's incisive introductory
essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary
setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly
love poetry. In particular, the reader's attention is drawn to the
many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets
are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution
to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a
valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through
unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places
and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets
offering biographical details.
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