1st Edition
New Songs from a Jade Terrace An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduction
Edited By Anne Birrell
Copyright 1982
404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting... Read more
1. Early Folk Songs and Ballads 2. Poets of the Wei and Chin Dynasties 3. Poets of the Chin Dynasty 4. Poets of the Southern Dynasties (early fifth century) 5. Poets of the Southern Dynasties (the decades AD 490-510) 6. Poets of the Southern Dynasties (early sixth century) 7. Royal Poets of the Liang (the Hsiao family) 8. Twenty Poets of the Liang Dynasty (sixth century) 9. Love Songs in Irregular Metres (from second century BC to sixth century AD) 10. A Treasury of Short Love Poems (from third to sixth centuries AD)
Biography
Anne Birrell
