Appreciation of Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Poetry, Lyrics, and Quatrain

Author: Zhou Zhichun
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: Appreciating the Four Books provides a detailed introduction to the basic categories of Chinese lyrical poetry and poetics, as well as their processes of emergence, development, flourishing, and evolution. The entire book blends poetic history, poetics, famous works, appreciation, and methods into one, allowing readers to gain systematic knowledge and appreciation techniques for Chinese lyrical poetry with just one volume. Each book in Appreciating the Four Books includes an introduction or overview, offering detailed explanations of the basic categories of Chinese lyrical poetry and poetics, as well as their processes of emergence, development, flourishing, and evolution. The book also features brief biographies of lyrical poets, placed before each selected work of each author. Thus, the entire book truly integrates poetic history, poetics, famous works, appreciation, and methods into one, enabling readers to gain systematic knowledge and appreciation techniques for Chinese lyrical poetry with just one volume. Appreciating the Four Books includes a stroke-order index and a phonetic index of author names and work titles, placed at the end of the series' Appreciating Poems and Prose of the Eight Dynasties Before the Tang. The texts of the famous works in the book are based on the most widely used editions, and where variant readings exist, the best ones are chosen without detailed annotation.