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Renditions nos. 21 & 22 (Spring & Autumn 1984)
Poetry and Poetics
Featuring a pantheon of classical poets and their modern translators, as well as modern poetry by Mu Dan and Cheng Ch’ou-yu, and discussions of poetics by Qian Zhongshu, Wen Yiduo, Huang Kuo-pin and others.
386 pages
Table of Contents
| 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’iü 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 | |