The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'Ang [Hardcover]

Stephen Owen (Author)

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• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr (January 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300023677
• ISBN-13: 978-0300023671
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,291,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic of Scholarship, June 22, 2009

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colotes "colotes" (Union, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'Ang (Hardcover)

This is a classic work covering the Tang flowering of Chinese poetry, highlighting the works as well as the cultural background. It discusses Wang Wei, Meng Hao-jan, Li Po, Tu Fu and many others. The text contains a liberal selection of translations (many not found in anthologies) by Owen as well as the original Chinese. 94 pages of the 440 page book are devoted to an appendix of detailed notes to the poems in small typeface. I second the previous reviewer in lamenting that this book was allowed to go out of print. I highly recommend making the effort to photocopy it if you can find it at an academic library: the expense will be far less than the current out-of-print asking price.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please get this back in print, April 14, 2009

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Steven Forth (Vancouver BC or Cambridge MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'Ang (Hardcover)

An important book by a renowned scholar. Let's get this (and all of his other books) back in print. T'ang poetry is one of the world's greatest cultural achievements and this is one of the best treatments.