Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

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Wuji Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo
Indiana University Press, 1975 - Literary Criticism - 630 pages
A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry from the 12th century B.C. to the present. "This magnificent collection has the effect of a complete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comes through into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderful things, immediately accessible." -- Publishers Weekly "Sunflower Splendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinese poems to have appeared in a Western language." -- The New York Times Book Review "This remarkably fine anthology should remain standard for a long time." -- Library Journal ..". excellent translations by divers hands. Open to any page and listen to the still, sad music... " -- Washington Post Bookworld
 

Contents

PART I
1
South Mount Soaring High TR C H WANG
7
The Fourth Month TR C H WANG
13
Selections TR WUCHI LIU
19
Anonymous
26
Hsiang Chi 232202 B C
29
Mulberry by the Path TR HANS H FRANKEL
36
A Song TR RONALD C MIAO
43
On Hearing that Holders of the Chinshih Degree
318
Prelude to Allure Goddesses TR JEROME P SEATON
324
52
326
Song of Picking MulberryRecollections
330
In the Mountains TR JAN W WALLS
335
Butterflies Lingering over Flowers TR ANYAN TANG
341
Drinking at the Lake First Its Sunny TR IRVING Y LO
347
Water Dragons Chant TR JAMES J Y LIU
349

Roaming Immortal TR RONALD C MIAO
48
Begging for Food TR WUCHI LIU
54
Journeying by Stream TR FRANCIS WESTBROOK
66
Passing the Night on a River in Chiente TR PAUL KROLL
67
Since You Went Away TR JAN W WALLS
69
A Song of Parable TR JAN W WALLS
75
Four Untitled Poems
90
Seeing Someone Off TR IRVING Y
96
Seeing Meng Haojan Off to Kuangling TR PAUL KROLL
101
They Fought South of the Walls TR JOSEPH J LEE
108
Kao Shih 702?765
114
Chiang Village Two Selections TR IRVING Y LO
120
Meandering River Two Poems TR IRVING Y LO
127
A Spring NightRejoicing in Rain TR WILLIAM
134
Wang Chaochün TR IRVING
140
Saying Farewell to Supervisor
144
Ku Kuang 725?c 814
150
Yi c 749c 829
157
After Passing the Examination TR IRVING Y LO
164
Occasional Poem TR CHARLES HARTMAN
170
The Pond in a Bowl Five Poems TR KENNETH O HANSON
185
The Officer at the Rapids TR CHARLES HARTMAN
188
Liu Yühsi 772842
196
Watching the Wheatreapers TR IRVING Y LO
202
On a Moonlit Night Sent to My Brothers and Sisters
208
Reading the Collected Works of Li Po and Tu
209
On Covering the Bones of Chang Chin the Hired
215
Mourning My Son TR ANGELA JUNG PALANDRI
221
Evening TR STEPHEN OWEN
227
About Horse Two Selections TR IRVING Y LO
235
Fallen Flowers TR JAMES J Y LIU
241
A Song of Wildfire TR WILLIAM R SCHULTZ
247
A Southern Song TR WILLIAM R SCHULTZ
252
Pi Jihhsiu c 833883
259
Lo Yin 833909
266
Spoken to Pines and Bamboos TR ROBIN D S YATES
281
An Occasional Poem TR IRVING Y LO
286
Sent to a Chan Master TR IRVING Y LO
292
Ku Hsiung fl 928
297
Ripples Sifting Sand TR DANIEL BRYANT
303
Journeying to the Village TR IRVING Y LO
306
Chiang Linchi Treats Me to Mudfish TR JONATHAN
312
Following the Rhymes of Chang Hsün
355
Six ToughiesWritten After the Roses
361
Tipsy in the Flowers Shade TR EUGENE EOYANG
367
Early Summer Waking from a Nap TR SHERWIN S S FU
373
Passing By Waterwheel Bay TR JONATHAN CHAVES
374
54
380
Immortal at the Magpie BridgeOn Hearing
386
Written While Lying on My Pillow TR WUCHI LIU
389
Groping for FishWritten at Hsiaoshan
395
Chiang Kuei 1155?1235?
401
Palegolden Willows TR CHIANG YEE
403
PART V
409
A Sprig of FlowersNot Bowing
415
Song of the Lunar Palace
418
Chang Kochiu 1265?1345?
425
Slow ChantHan
429
Chiao Chi 12801345
437
55
444
Kuan Yünshih 12861324
445
Greeting the Immortal Guest
451
PART VI
457
Lin Hung c 1383
463
Wine Cup and Bright Moon TR IRVING Y LO
466
A Parable TR IRVING Y LO
472
Song of River CityOn a Kite
475
Arriving After Rain TR RICHARD JOHN LYNN
481
Remembering the Lady of ChinAt
483
Chao Yi 17271814
490
A nations vitality comes from wind and thunder
495
Ballad of the Orioles in the Fields TR HANS H FRANKEL
500
Folk Songs Two Selections TR IRVING Y
501
58
505
Song of Picking Mulberry TR CHINGI TU
506
Inscribed on Byrons Poetic Works TR WUCHI LIU
512
59
513
On Hearing the News of the Japanese Surrender
517
Bibliography
523
Seven Poems of Lament TR RONALD C MIAO
526
Background on Poets and Poems
533
Tunetitles and Translations
623
Index of Authors
629
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