Wang Wei Poetry Annotations

Author: Chen Tiemin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Wang Wei was a renowned poet of the flourishing Tang Dynasty. His poetry encompasses a rich variety of content and themes, with many works reflecting the vibrant spirit of the prosperous Tang era. Wang Wei excelled at depicting natural landscapes, and his landscape poems achieved remarkable artistic heights. It is no exaggeration to say that he was a master of classical Chinese landscape poetry. His poems also possess the virtues of harmonious rhythms and concise, natural language. Moreover, his regulated verse compositions are exceptionally refined, a rare quality among Tang Dynasty poets. This book follows the first fifteen volumes of Wang Wei's poems from the Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Diancheng's annotated edition, with the sequence of poems adhering to Zhao's annotations. The annotations strive for thoroughness and provide necessary explanations for difficult lines. For poems with verifiable dates, the dates are indicated in the notes.