Pocket Anthology of New Poetry Appreciation Dictionary

Author: Gong Mu
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This comprehensive reference book, integrating selection, analysis, and lookup functions, has become an indispensable tool for students and literature enthusiasts due to its collection of the essence of Chinese literature, as well as its accessible and rich content. To meet the needs of readers with varying cultural backgrounds, it has been revised into a series of compact literary appreciation dictionaries based on the original scale, selecting outstanding works, retaining some appendices, and reorganizing them. This book includes 292 poems by 198 modern and contemporary poets. They are generally arranged in chronological order. As a rule, each poem is accompanied by an appreciation article, though some works are discussed together. The book uses simplified characters, with traditional characters or variant characters used when necessary to avoid ambiguity. Difficult or ambiguous phrases in the poems are usually explained within the appreciation articles, with occasional annotations at the end. Historical dates related to ancient history are generally presented in the old calendar system, with corresponding Gregorian dates provided in parentheses. The Gregorian dates in parentheses usually omit the word "year."