Chinese poetry: versions by Rexroth


Chinese poetry: versions by Rexroth
* 1956: Rexroth's 100 from the Chinese.
* 1970: Rexroth's 100 More from the Chinese.
* Time Line.

Rexroth's One Hundred Poems From The Chinese

Rexroth's One Hundred More Poems From The Chinese

Time Line

700-800
T'ang Dynasty early portion: 'Renaissance'.

701-761
Wang Wei, who "was with Li Po and Tu Fu one of the greatest poets of the reign of Emperor Hsuan Tsung.

712-770
The poet Tu Fu.

813-859
The poet Li Shang Yin, "the greatest T'ang poet after Po Chu I". However, Rexroth writes in Po Chu I's biographical note: "Po Chu I (772-846) is generally considered, with Li Po, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, one of the four leading poets of the T'ang Dynasty.

1000-1225
Sung Dynasty: 'Mainstream renewal'.

1002-1060
The poet Mei Yao Ch'en.

1007-1072
The poet Ou Yang Hsiu. Excelled at prose poetry. A politician and historian.

1036-1101
The poet Su Tung P'o. Of the scholar gentry (Confucianist), he opposed centralization of power forced by the reformer Wang An Shih: "one of China's very greatest poets" [p. xii].

1081-1140
The woman poet Li Ch'ing Chao, said by Rexroth to be "China's greatest poet of any period".

1125-1209
The poet Lu Yu was "the least classical of the major Sung poets".

1130-1200
Chu Hsi is "the great philosopher and historian, founder of Sung Neo-Confucianism".

About 1200
Hsu Chao.

About 1200
Chu Shu Chen, a woman poet: "Nothing definite is known about her".

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