An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty

by Michael A. Fuller

Book Overview

This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers--including those with no knowledge of Chinese--as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674983882
• ISBN13: 9780674983885
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.9"