In this Book
- The Vitality of the Lyric Voice: Shih Poetry from the Late Han to the T'ang
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
This volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live-character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry.
Originally published in 1987.
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Table of Contents
- I. Theoretical Background
- II. Concepts and Contexts
- Verses from on High: The Ascent of T'ai Shan
- pp. 167-216
- The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry
- pp. 217-252
- III. Forms and Genres
- The Aesthetics of Regulated Verse
- pp. 332-386
- Contributors
- pp. 387-390