Wang Wei's Poetry Annotations (Inheritance Library - Classical and Modern Contrast)

Author: Chen Tiemin
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Wang Wei was a renowned poet of the high Tang Dynasty. His poetry is rich in content and themes, with many works reflecting the vibrant spirit of the flourishing Tang era. Wang Wei excelled at depicting natural scenery, and his landscape poems achieved remarkable artistic heights. It is no exaggeration to say that he was a master of ancient Chinese landscape poetry. His poems also possess the virtues of harmonious rhythms and concise, natural language. Moreover, his regulated verse compositions are exceptionally skillful, 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 Collection, with the order of poems adhering to the Annotated Collection. The annotations strive for thoroughness and provide necessary explanations for difficult lines. For poems with verifiable dates, the notes indicate this information.