The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860)

by Stephen Owen

Book Overview

The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and the traces of the past had a singular aura.

In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang. Focusing in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674033280
• ISBN13: 9780674033283
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"