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The poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang / translated by Stephen Owen and Wendy Swartz ; volume edited by Xiaofei Tian and Ding Xiang Warner.
LIBRA PL2664.J8 A2 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruan, Ji, 210-263, author.
- Ji, Kang, 223-262, author.
- Series:
- Library of Chinese humanities
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruan, Ji, 210-263--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ruan, Ji.
- Ji, Kang, 223-262--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ji, Kang.
- Ji, Kang, 223-262.
- Ruan, Ji, 210-263.
- Chinese poetry--220-589--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- Chinese poetry--Philosophy.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 405 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Introduction in English; poetry in Chinese and English.
- Summary:
- This volume provides a translation of the complete poetry and fu of the canonical writer Ruan Ji (ca. 223-ca. 262) in a new context that does not read the poet as a loyalist of the Wei dynasty, but rather as someone who wanted to stay alive in dangerous times. The volume also introduces English-language readers to the poetic works of Xi Kang, one of the most acclaimed medieval Chinese writers. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Poetry of Ruan Ji (210-263) 1
- Introduction 3
- Singing My Cares 26
- The Five-syllable-line Poems 26
- The Four-syllable-line Poems 139
- The Poetic Expositions (fu) 146
- Poetic Exposition on Dongping 146
- Poetic Exposition on Mount Shouyang 170
- Poetic Exposition on the Cuckoos 176
- Poetic Exposition on the Macaque 180
- Poetic Exposition on Purifying My Longings 188
- Poetic Exposition on Kangfu 206
- Abbreviations 214
- Additional Notes 216
- Part 2 The Poetry of Xi Kang (ca. 223-262) 253
- Introduction 255
- Poems 266
- A Pentasyllabic Poem Presented to the Cultivated Talent (also tided "Thoughts of the Ancients in Pentasyllabic Verse") 266
- Poems Presented to My Elder Brother the Cultivated Talent on His Entry into the Army, Eighteen Poems 268
- A Poem on My Indignation in Confinement 288
- Telling of My Intent, Two Poems 298
- Roaming with Immortals 302
- Hexasyllabic Verse, Ten Poems 306
- Recomposing Tetrasyllable Verse, Seven Poems (also titled "Imitations of the Song of Qiu Hu" or "Ballad of Qiu Hu") 312
- Thinking of My Loved Ones 322
- A Response to the Two Guos, Three Poems 326
- A Poem to Ruan Deru 334
- A Poem Composed for a Wine Drinking Gathering 338
- Tetrasyllabic Verse, Eleven Poems 340
- Pentasyllabic Verse, Three Poems 352
- Rhapsody on the Zither 358.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781501511851
- 1501511858
- OCLC:
- 1001287610
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