About this Book

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Literature and Cultural History -- T'ang Literati: A Composite Biography /Hans H. Frankel -- Transparencies: Reading the T'ang Lyric /Stephen Owen -- The Significance of the fu in the History of T'ang Poetry /Paul W. Kroll -- An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo's Apology for Poetry /Ding Xiang Warner -- Tamed Kite and Stranded Fish: Interference and Apology in Lu Chao-lin's fu /Paul W. Kroll -- A Re-evaluation of Chen Ziang's "Manifesto of a Poetic Reform" /Timothy Wai Keung Chan -- On Li Po /Elling O. Eide -- Li Po's Letters in Pursuit of Political Patronage /Victor H. Mair -- Li Bai's "Rhapsody on the Hall of Light": A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order /Nicholas Morrow Williams -- Tu Fu /Stephen Owen -- Tu Fu's Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in his Poetry /Shan Chou -- Poems in Their Place: Collections and Canons in Early Chinese Literature /Pauline Yu -- Heyue yingling ji and the Attributes of High Tang Poetry /Paul W. Kroll -- The Formation of the Tang Estate Poem /Stephen Owen.