New songs from a jade terrace: an anthology of early Chinese love poetry
by Anne Birrell
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This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Y-t-ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell's incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader's show more attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details. show lessTags
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Important precursors to the great Tang poets. To me, this collection comes closest to Poems from the Late Tang, the anthology that originally drew me into Chinese poetry
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Anne Birrell is at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
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- Canonical title
- New songs from a jade terrace: an anthology of early Chinese love poetry
- Original title
- Yü-t'ai hsin-yung; 玉臺新詠
- Original publication date
- AD 545; 1982 (English translation) (English translation); 1986 (New Edition) (New Edition)
- Dedication
- To the memory of Suzuki Torao (1878-1963)
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- Genres
- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 895.1 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese
- LCC
- PL2524 .Y8413 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese literature Collections
- BISAC
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- (3.13)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
