Brocade River Poems : Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan / Xue Tao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tao, Xue, author.

Contributor:

Larsen, Jeanne.

Series:

Lockert library of poetry in translation.

Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; 122

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hsüeh, Tʻao, 768-831--Translations into English.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the contemporary reader of English. This bilingual edition contains about two-thirds of Xue Tao's extant poems. The translations are based on accurate readings of the originals and extensive research in both Chinese and Japanese materials. The notes at the end of the book explain allusions and place the poems in the context of medieval Chinese culture and its great literary heritage, while the opening essay introduces Xue Tao's work and describes her unusual life history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

INTRODUCTION

YONGWU POEMS

Poem in Answer to Someone's "After the Rains, Taking Pleasure among the Bamboo"

Cicadas

Wind

Moon

Peonies

Poem Rhyming with Liu Yuxi's "Jade Rose of Sharon"

FAREWELL POEMS

Seeing-Off a Friend

Seeing-Off Associate Secretary Yao

Seeing-Off Zheng, Prefect of Meizhou

POEMS ON LOVE AND ON COURTESANS

Gazing at Spring, I

Gazing at Spring, II

Gazing at Spring, III

Gazing at Spring, IV

Homethoughts

Autumn, Hearing the Headwaters on a Moonlit Night

Riverbank

Willow Floss

Mountain Pear Blossoms: Poem Rhyming with One by Li, General of the Armies

OCCASIONAL VERSE

Banquet Poem for Minister Wu Yuanheng, Governor of the Western Rivers District

Another Banquet Poem for Minister Wu

Rained-Out on the Mid-Autumn Festival, I

Rained-Out on the Mid-Autumn Festival, II

A Wandering Tour of the Countryside in Spring: Sent to Master Sun

Another Poem for Master Sun

Sent upon Being 111 and Unable to Accompany ^ Minister Duan on an Excursion to Wudan Temple

Written to Thank Licentiate Yong for Painting of the Yangzi Gorges

Written to Thank Auxiliary Xin for a Spray of Flowers

Trying on New-Made Clothes, I

Trying on New-Made Clothes, II

Trying on New-Made Clothes, III

POEMS OF PROTEST, POEMS OF BANISHMENT

For Someone Far Away, I

For Someone Far Away, II

On Being Banished to the Borderlands: Submitted to Commander Wei

Another Poem for Commander Wei S I on Being Banished

On Arriving at the Borderlands: Submitted to Minister Wu

Another Poem for Minister Wu on Arriving at the Borderlands

TEN PARTINGS

Dog Parted from Her Master

Writing Brush Parted from the Hand

Horse Parted from Her Stable

Parrot Parted from Her Cage

Swallow Parted from Her Nest

Pearl Parted from the Palm

Fish Parted from the Pond

Falcon Parted from the Gauntlet

Bamboo Parted from the Pavillion

Mirror Parted from Its Stand

POEMS FOR HOLY PEOPLE, HOLY PLACES

On Beyond-the-Clouds Temple, I

On Beyond-the-Clouds Temple, II

Written on Lord-Bamboo Shrine

On Visiting the Shrine at Shamanka Mountain

Lyric Sent to a Taoist Recluse

Poem in Response to the Taoist Teacher Yang's "On Being Summoned to Court"

On Being Presented to Monk Xuan: A Poem to Rhyme with Those by the Gathered Nobles

Listening to a Monk Play the Reed Pipes

NATURE POEMS

Water Chestnut and Salad-Rush Pond

Lotus-Gathering Boat

Crabapple Brook

Gazing at Stonebarrel Mountain in Early Morning: Sent to Imperial Censor Lu

Sketch of Stonebarrel Mountain

For Vice-President Xiao of the Tribunal of Censors: On the Pond His Ancestor Made

River-Moon Tower: Thinking of the Southland

For the Opening of Border Strategy Tower

Westcliff

Spring View of Chengdu, the Brocade City

POEMS ON POETRY

In Response to Lord Commissioner Wen

In Response to Licentiate Zhu, Thirteenth of His Generation

In Response to Grand Secretary Du of the Imperial Cabinet

Sending Old Poems to Yuan Zhen

NOTES TO THE POEMS

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400884018

1400884012

OCLC:

950466161