The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many
poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity
of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked
backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes
and the traces of the past had a singular aura.
In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history
of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang.
Focusing in particular on Du Mu, Li Shangyin, and Wen Tingyun, he
analyzes the redirection of poetry that followed the deaths of the
major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their
poetic styles. The Late Tang, Owen argues, forces us to change our
very notion of the history of poetry. Poets had always drawn on
past poetry, but in the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to
assume the form it would have for the next millennium; it was
becoming a repertoire of available choices--styles, genres, the
voices of past poets. It was this repertoire that would endure.
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