Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese PoetryWuji Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo 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 |
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Common terms and phrases
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