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E-book The Poetry of Meng Haoran

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After the three most famous poets – Li Bo ?? (701–762?), Wang Wei?? (701–761), Du Fu ?? (712–770) – of the reign of the Tangemperor Xuanzong ?? (r. 712–756) and extending roughly a decadeafterward, a half-century generally regarded as comprising the finestperiod of Tang poetry (i.e., the so-called “High Tang”), it is the poetMeng Haoran ??? (689–740) whose name usually comes next tomind. In terms of the far smaller number of his extant works and theirmuch narrower formal and topical variety when compared with theworks of the other three poets, this may seem odd. It is largely a result,as is often the case in literary history, of aftertimes altering reputations.As evident from the relative number of selections included in two con-temporary anthologies of poetry (more on which below), Meng Haoranwas but one of many stars of medium magnitude in the crowded poeticfirmament of the High Tang period.His current renown as one of the four most respected poets of his ageowes much to the fact that the eighteenth-century anthology Tangshisanbaishou ????? (Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty),compiled by Sun Zhu ?? in 1764, includes more of his poems (thir-teen) than those of any of his contemporaries except Du Fu (thirty-six), Li Bo (thirty-five), and Wang Wei (twenty-eight).1Since this an-thology has been, for the past two centuries and more, the book thatis the normal starting-point for one’s acquaintance with Tang poetry,its selections and weightings have gone a long way toward determiningthe initial critical judgments of generations of readers. But the elevationof Meng Haoran to a level not far under Li Bo and Du Fu, and equalor nearly so to Wang Wei, goes back to the late ninth century and thefinal decades of the Tang dynasty. Then, Pi Rixiu ??? (834?–883?)claimed that only Meng Haoran could be set adjacent to Li Bo anlaimed that only Meng Haoran could be set adjacent to Li Bo and Du Fu as a poet and not be embarrassed.2During the Song dynasty it became common to speak of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran together asa “Wang-Meng school of poetry” (????), whose emphasis was onnature imagery and unaffected plainness of diction.3This was oftenmentioned as an admirable second-tier excellence of High Tang poetry,after first acknowledging the unsurpassed greatness of Du Fu and LiBo. Meng Haoran’s verse was even adduced by Yan Yu ?? (1191–1241) as exemplary of Chan (or Zen) Buddhist enlightenment.4Oneof his poems, “Spring Daybreak” (4.57 in this volume), was for centu-ries among those first recited and memorized by young students (andthereby embedded in the mind for life), thanks to it being the openingpoem in the most popular introductory anthology to Tang and Songpoetry for children.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

895.1 KRO t

Penerbit

Boston : De Gruyter., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

535 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783110734690

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895.1

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computer

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online resource

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Chinese Literatures

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