A Brotherhood in Song

A Brotherhood in Song: Chinese Poetry and Poetics

Edited by Stephen C. Soong

1985
386 pages
ISBN 962-201-356-2

EDITOR’S PAGE
STEPHEN SOONG: Introduction: The Chinese Poetic Tradition	1
POETICS
CH’IEN CHUNG-SHU: Poetry as a Vehicle of Grief translated by Siu-kit Wong	21
YEH CHIA-YING: Li Shang-yin’s “Four Yen-t’ai Poems” translated by James R. Hightower	41
JAMES J.Y. LIU: Chiang K’uei’s Poetics	93
HUANG KUO-PIN: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Comparative Study	99
WEN I-TO: Form in Poetry translated by Randy Trumbull	127
POETRY
Five Poems translated by David Hawkes	137
LI PO: The Hard Road to Shu translated by A.C. Graham	142
STEPHEN OWEN: Some Mid-T’ang Quatrains	145
Six Poems translated by Arthur Cooper	179
Fifteen Selected Lyrics translated by D.C. Lau	187
LI CH’ING-CHAO: Double Brightness translated by John Minford	200
LU YU: Seven Poems translated by Burton Watson	201
*WU WEN-YING: Five Tz’u* Songs** translated by Grace S. Fong	205
Fifteen Yüan San-Ch’ü translated by C.H. Kwock and Gary G. Gach	215
Ten Ming Songs translated by K.C. Leung	230
CHU HSIANG: Thirteen Lyric Poems translated by Bonnie S. McDougall	241
MU TAN: Eleven Poems translated by Pang Bingjun	252
CHENG CH’OU-YÜ: Ten Poems translated by Huang Kuo-pin	273
THE ART OF POETRY TRANSLATION
STEPHEN SOONG: The “Biased Compound” in Chinese Poetic Diction	287
LING CHUNG: This Ancient Man Is I	307
JOHN CAYLEY: To Keep Them from Falling	331
POEMS ON POETRY
JOHN TIMOTHY WIXTED: Sung-Dynasty and Western Poems on Poetry	351
TAI FU-KU and YÜAN HAO-WEN: Poems on Poetry translated by John Timothy Wixted	360
Brush and Breath: Poems on Poetry from the Ch’ing Dynasty translated by John Minford	371
Notes on Contributors	383

A Brotherhood in Song: Chinese Poetry and Poetics

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