A Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry: Twelve Masters

Author: Luo Fu
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Objectively and calmly compiling this serious poetry anthology from the hundred-year history of Chinese-language poetry, with all the works being the most representative long poems by the poets. This is a pioneering effort in the history of new poetry publishing in China. Luo Fu advocates for long poems, believing that they are pillars of a nation's spirit. This anthology fully demonstrates his artistic stance and spiritual orientation. "A long poem is an important symbol of a nation's poetic culture. Every nation and ethnic group expects and aspires to have outstanding and great poets who can represent their excellent culture, and also hopes to have distinctive long poems in the forest of world ethnic cultures. Since the May Fourth Movement, although the creation of long poems has not yielded abundant results, there are still some noteworthy and excellent works. The works of these twelve poets are the masterpieces of poets from the May Fourth period to the contemporary era, with considerable representativeness, and it is believed that they will leave a legacy in the history of new poetry." The preface "Calling for Masterpieces of Long Poems" by the renowned poet and critic Ye Lu, spanning nearly 20,000 words, comprehensively and profoundly elaborates on the artistic achievements of these twelve poets, holding significant historical and textual value.