{"product_id":"poems-on-poetry-literary-criticism-by-yuan-haowen-20803-22909-21839-1190-1257-paperback","title":"Poems on Poetry: Literary Criticism by Yuan Haowen \u0026#20803;\u0026#22909;\u0026#21839; (1190-1257) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Timothy Wixted\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published to critical acclaim in the M nchener Ostasiatische Studien Series (Bd. 33), Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, this Quirin Press Revised Edition offers the original text with the following features: \u003cbr\u003e - Older Wade-Giles transliteration fully updated and revised to Pinyin.\u003cbr\u003e - Fully re-typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies.\u003cbr\u003e - Expanded index. - Fully revised by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeywords: \u003cbr\u003e Yuan Haowen 元好問, 1190-1257 -- Criticism and interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e Chinese poetry -- History and criticism -- Poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews of the original 1982 edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Yuan Haowen's poems on poetry] are devilishly hard to translate. Only someone at home in Chinese poetic tradition or at least capable of understanding the numerous commentators who have worked on these poems could ever hope to cope with all the difficulties involved. The present translation is excellent and the translator carefully presents an enormous amount of explanatory material which makes it possible for even the most obtuse to grasp not only the general meaning of these difficult verses, but even the subtle nuances contained in allusions culled from the entire poetic tradition.\u003cbr\u003e Donald Holzman, (\u003cem\u003eOrientalistische Literaturzeitung\u003c\/em\u003e: 82.2 (1987), pp. 204-205)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a study of Yuan Haowen's criticism on poetry which is truly of outstanding scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e Yuan's poems are indeed like riddles. A few of them defied even the skill and scholarship of Dr. Wixted, as he freely admits. His study is, on the other side, a great tribute to the geniality of Yuan Haowen, the poet who wrote, seemingly with ease, these short poems which baffled, fascinated and challenged so many scholars who in the course of time have tried so hard to decipher Yuan's thoughts, so masterly expressed.\u003cbr\u003e The Bibliography is a treasury of information in itself.\u003cbr\u003e Eugen Feifel, (\u003cem\u003eMonumenta Serica\u003c\/em\u003e: 35 (1981-83), pp. 631-635)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Wixted's work is now a very fine book. Of all the difficult kinds of texts in classical Chinese letters, perhaps poems on poetry are the most difficult to understand--because of their terse, dense, elliptical and highly allusive mode of discourse....The exact meanings of the terms of this vocabulary are often extremely difficult to determine since they seem to vary so much over time and from writer to writer. In dealing with such terms one has to keep in mind a series of overlapping contexts: (1) the individual critic's own body of writings, (2) the values and views of the group or 'school' to which he might belong, (3) his historical period and stage in the overall development of creative and critical writing, (4) the broader context of current intellectual discourse including philosophical and religious writings, and (5) the tradition of criticism up to his own time. It is very much to Wixted's credit that he is well aware of these contexts and how they interrelate and that he is able to draw upon this awareness to help explicate Yuan's poems.\u003cbr\u003e  T]he advantages of the  book's] arrangement are significant: the reader has at his fingertips a self-contained package of materials--poetry as well as prose, including Chinese texts--by Yuan and others that supplies virtually everything needed to gain a thorough appreciation of what Yuan's 'Thirty Poems on Poetry' say and mean.\u003cbr\u003e Richard John Lynn, (\u003cem\u003eHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\u003c\/em\u003e 47.2 (Dec. 1987), pp. 696-715)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor further details visit: www.quirinpress.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwitter\/Facebook: @QuirinPress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 460\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42104646992007,"sku":"9781922169341","price":125.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8f3df599e45e0c40581438a1ce19bcf4.webp?v=1732426524","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/poems-on-poetry-literary-criticism-by-yuan-haowen-20803-22909-21839-1190-1257-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}