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The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860)

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Description for The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860) Paperback. The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and traces of the past had a singular aura. This book presents the literary history of the Tang. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.

The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and the traces of the past had a singular aura.

In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang. Focusing in particular on Du Mu, Li Shangyin, and Wen Tingyun, he analyzes the redirection of poetry that followed the deaths of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
596
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674033283
SKU
V9780674033283
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About Stephen Owen
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Reviews for The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860)
Over the last several decades, Owen has distinguished himself as one of the world’s foremost scholars of the poetry of the Tang dynasty (618–906)… As always, Owen’s analysis of literary history is keen and penetrating, and his translations from the Chinese are both readable and faithful to the original poems. This is one of the most important studies on Tang ... Read more

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