The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry

“Arguably the most erudite and prolific scholar/translator of English language studies of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, Owen has published everything from introductory surveys to highly specialized technical studies of classical Chinese verse. The present work—six chapters plus a substantial introduction and seven useful appendixes—presents a detailed and fairly comprehensive treatment of how the standard corpus of ‘classical Chinese poetry’ evolved and gained ever-wider acceptance.”—J. W. Walls, Choice