The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High Tang, Paperback - Stephen Owen

Reducere. Hailed as the most important and most comprehensive single study of Tang poetry to have appeared in English when originally published by Yale Unive...

Publisher: Laurence King PublishingAuthor(s): Philip KennedyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 322 x 228 x 37Cover type: Hardbac...

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Reducere. This bilingual edition of Tang poems offers a new approach to reading and understanding classical Chinese poetry. Included are nearly two hundred r...

DescriptionHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Ta...

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Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800-1127 CE) was marked by a xenoph...

Reducere. DescriptionStephen Crane referred to his poetry as "lines" rather than poems. He did not consider it poetry, as the poetry of the time was mainly m...

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In 2001, Michael Owen and Stephen Payseur were playing golf together. During their play the discussion turned to many areas including religion. Aft...

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The biography of Second World War Spitfire pilot John Gillespie Magee who penned the poem `High Flight', which would inspire legions of aspiring av...

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In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in...

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Reducere. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taois...

Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art....

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Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contem...

This gripping diary, written from the perspective of the young Alfred (with the help of his scribe Godric), will take readers through the major eve...

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A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite

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Publisher: University of Hawai'i PressAuthor(s): Frank ChinNumber of pages: 280Collection: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural ...

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Publisher: Europe BooksAuthor(s): V.V.A.A.Number of pages: 78Collection: Draw SpacesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 144 x 209 x 14Cover type: Pap...

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Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly...