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The Poetry of Li He (Hardcover)
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The Poetry of Li He (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Chinese Humanities
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Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat
outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there
have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic
lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without
parallel. He is renowned particularly for his lyrical reimaginings
of song traditions from the ancient past, and his premature death,
along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later
readers to view him as the emblematic cursed poet, whose
fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial
and demonic beings seemed to presage the brevity of his own
existence. Li He's style and diction are often idiosyncratic and
even hermetic, and his work presents daunting challenges to readers
wishing to follow the flights of his imagination, or simply to
construe the basic sense of his language. This volume presents
close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format
with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and
historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along
with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other
technical matters. Taken together, these features will be a welcome
aid to readers wishing to explore Li He's poetic worlds first-hand.
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