Chinese Poems Through the Ages: A Classification and Appreciation of Landscape Poems

Author: Wang Tiezhu, Zhang Zhanguo (editors)
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Publish Date: 2006-04-03
Features: China is a country of poetry. In the 5,000 years of splendid and brilliant history and civilization, poetry and ci have stood out as a unique branch in the garden of arts, producing millions of outstanding works that are highly praised. The "Selected Poems and Ci of China Through the Ages" series categorizes the selected content into over 30 categories such as landscapes, pastoral scenes, descriptive scenes, and love poems. On this basis, they are further divided into five volumes: "Poems on Landscapes," "Poems on Emotions," "Poems on Ambition," "Poems on Reflections," and "Poems on Events." Additionally, to facilitate readers' appreciation, the editors have included their interpretations of each poem in the annotations, and at the end, there are introductions to the relevant authors. This volume, "Poems on Landscapes," compiles hundreds of time-honored, widely acclaimed, and appreciably valuable poems on landscapes. They are either elegant, heroic, sorrowful, tender, or profound.