The Poetry of Li He

Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without parallel. He is renowned particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of song traditions from the ancient past, and his premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view him as the emblematic cursed poet, whose fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial and demonic beings seemed to presage the brevity of his own existence. Li He's style and diction are often idiosyncratic and even hermetic, and his work presents daunting challenges to readers wishing to follow the flights of his imagination, or simply to construe the basic sense of his language. This volume presents close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other technical matters. Taken together, these features will be a welcome aid to readers wishing to explore Li He's poetic worlds first-hand.

Info autore

Robert Ashmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Ashmore
• Con la collaborazione di: Sarah Allen (Editore), Sarah M Allen (Editore), Sarah M. Allen (Editore), Robert Ashmore (Editore), Christopher M B Nugent (Editore), Christophe Nugent (Editore), Christopher Nugent (Editore), Christopher M B Nugent (Editore), Christopher M. B. Nugent (Editore), Xiaofei Tian (Editore), Xiao-Fei Tian (Editore), Robert Ashmore (Traduzione)
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Lingue: Cinese, Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781501513299
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1329-9
• Pagine: 454
• Dimensioni: 141 mm x 32 mm x 214 mm
• Peso: 652 g
• Serie: Library of Chinese Humanities; Library of Chinese Humanities; ISSN
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature