Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110734699
Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry. Includes original Chinese texts and English translation on facing pages.
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Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781977251770
The Poems of Meng Haoran is a collection of English translations from Classical Chinese of the 267 extant poems of the Tang Dynasty poet, Meng Haoran (689-740 CE), one of the important and influential figures of the "golden age" of Chinese poetry. The source of the Chinese texts is the Quan Tang shi (The complete Tang poetry, 1705 CE). In addition to translations of the poems, this volume also contains an introduction by the translator, a set of appendices that includes translations of the surviving early documents of the of the life of the poet, and an extensive glossary of Chinese terms, names and places to which reference is made in the poems. Standard pinyin romanization is used for transliteration and Chinese characters are supplied for poem titles and terms in the glossary and at appropriate places in the preface and introduction.
Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110734893
Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry. Includes original Chinese texts and English translation on facing pages.
Author : Meng Hao-Jan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0972869239
The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.
Author : Meng Hao-Jan
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1935744097
The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.
Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A critical biography of Meng Hao-Jan, a major Tang dynasty poet.
Author : Lin Geng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000283712
Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language and diverse styles constitute great Literature in itself, as well as a rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set constitutes a classic analysis of Tang poetry in the “Golden Age” of Chinese poetry (618–907 CE). This volume focuses on the prominent Tang poets and poems. Beginning with an introduction to the “four greatest poets”—Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, and Bai Juyi—the author discusses their subjects, language, influence, and key works. The volume also includes essays on a dozen of masterpieces of Tang poetry, categorized by topics such as love and friendship, aspirations and seclusion, as well as travelling and nostalgia. As the author stresses, Tang poetry is worth rereading because it makes us invigorate our mental wellbeing, leaving it powerful and full of vitality. This book will appeal to researchers and students of Chinese literature, especially of classical Chinese poetry. People interested in Chinese culture will also benefit from the book.
Author : Robert Joe Cutter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501506978
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi’s elder brother Cao Pi (187–226) engineered the abdication of the last Han emperor, establishing himself as the founding emperor of the Wei Dynasty (220–265). Although Cao Zhi wanted to play an active role in government and military matters, he was not allowed to do so, and he is remembered as a writer. The Poetry of Cao Zhi contains in its body one hundred twenty-eight pieces of poetry and fu. The extant editions of Cao Zhi’s writings differ in the number of pieces they contain and present many textual variants. The translations in this volume are based on a valuable edition of Cao’s works by Ding Yan (1794–1875), and are supplemented by robust annotations, a brief biography of Cao Zhi, and an introduction to the poetry by the translator.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1993-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780060950248
The three T'ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu crystallize the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.
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Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 9781419670138
This bilingual edition of Tang poems offers a new approach to reading and understanding classical Chinese poetry. Included are nearly two hundred regulated verses written by the great poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li Shangyin, and Meng Haoran. For each poem, both traditional and simplified Chinese characters are provided for cross reference. In addition to its literary translation, each poem is given a bilingual annotation with respect to the literal meanings of each key word or phrase. The tone and pinyin transliteration of each Chinese character are also provided. Readers who are familiar with the pinyin system can learn to recite the original poem the way the Chinese read it. This book is designed to help the readers understand Tang poems from a bilingual perspective. It may also be a helpful learning tool for students who want to learn Chinese through poetry.
