The Road to East Slope : The Development of Su Shi’s Poetic Voice / Michael A. Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Michael A., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Su Shi (1037-1101) is the greatest poet of the Song Dynasty, a man whose writings and image defined some of the enduring central themes of the Chinese cultural tradition. Su Shi was not only the best poet of his time, he was also a government official, a major prose stylist, a noted calligrapher, an avid herbalist, a dabbler in alchemy, and a broadly learned scholar. The author shows how this complex personality was embodied in Su Shi's work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Song Dynasty Reign Periods, 1023-1125

Introduction

ONE Prelude: Voices of Mid-Northern Song Poetry

TWO The Young Scholar from Shu

THREE Fengxiang and the Poetry of Immanent Pattern

FOUR Hangzhou: The Widening Circle

FIVE The Magistrate Reflects on Life: Su Shi in Mizhou, Xuzhou, and Huzhou

SIX The Layman of East Slope

Appendix: The Texts

Notes

Bibliography

Title Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2320-3

OCLC:

1294424993