History of Chinese Literature (II) Revised Edition

Author: You Guoen
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Publish Date: 2004-03-16
Features: The ancient Chinese literature, with its long-standing tradition, entered a new stage of comprehensive prosperity during the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods. The literary scene witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of diversity and vibrancy since the Warring States period. Among these developments, poetry reached a golden age of maturity. In less than three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, the number of poems left behind exceeded two or three times the amount. This book introduces the literature of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods, with detailed content including: poetry of the Sui and early Tang; landscape and pastoral poets of the mid-Tang; frontier poets of the mid-Tang; the great romantic poet Li Bai; the great realist poet Du Fu; poets of the early mid-Tang; the realist poet Bai Juyi and the New Yuefu Movement; the classical prose movement and Han Yu's essays; other poets of the mid-Tang; late Tang literature; and Tang Dynasty legends