Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry: The Rivers and Lakes Poets of the Southern Song

by Hongsheng Zhang

Zhang explores the sociohistorical environment that produced those poets, an era of political intrigues, geopolitical threats, the rise of commodity economy, flourishing popular culture, and glamorous urban life. Poetry was their means of livelihood as they drifted between low positions or as commoners, living by procuring favors from the powerful elite. The sadness and joys of a life in precarity shaped their thematic and stylistic choices, response...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004522948
• ISBN13: 9789004522947
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 548 Pages