The Late Tang

Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860)

Stephen Owen

    Introduction: Latecomers

    1. Setting the Stage

    2. The Old Men

    3. Regulated Verse in the Short Line

    4. The Craftsmen of Poetry

    5. The Legacy of Li He

    6. Regulated Verse in the Long Line: The "Meditation on the Past"

    7. Poets of the Long Line

    8. Du Mu

    9. Daoism: The Case of Cao Tang

    10. Li Shangyin: Preliminaries

    11. Li Shangyin: The Hermetic Poems

    12. Li Shangyin: The History Poems

    13. Li Shangyin: "Poems on Things"

    14. Li Shangyin: The Poems on Occasion

    15. Wen Tingyun

    Conclusion

    Works Cited

    Index

  • Cover: The Late Tang

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University with joint appointments in the Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.