唐詩(诗)三百首, 300 Tang Poems

[Kobo-Daishi]

At the Forumosa forums there's a discussion on Tang-dynasty poems, especially from the 唐詩(诗)三百首, 300 Tang Poems.

 

So, I thought I might post some background on the 300 Tang Poems and some helpful links.

 

 

The entry for 唐詩(诗)三百首 from The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Tang_Poems

 

At the Wikipedia entry for Three Hundred Tang Poems, they've a link to Zhongwen.com where they've the 300 poems.

 

http://zhongwen.com/tangshi.htm

 

The Zhongwen site has linked each poem to its English translation at the University of Virginia's Etext Center.

 

The links appear to no longer be working properly. Probably the university updated their web site, so, previous links no longer go to where the poems now reside.

 

After a little searching I've since discovered the poems are here.

 

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:476610

 

Also, at the Asiawind Forums, there's an ethnic Chinese guy from Malaysia, now residing in Australia, who posts a lot on Chinese poems.

 

http://www.asiawind.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=147 禹廟 The temple of Yu - by Du Fu (杜甫 712AD to 770AD)

 

A representative example of one of his posts.

 

It's like having an annotated edition in English. And he's open to questions.

 

I think, but aren't certain, that he covered all 300 poems from 唐詩(诗)三百首 before they revamped the web site and erased all the previous posts. I wasn't paying much attention back then. Not really that into poetry.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=tang+poem+site%3Awww.asiawind.com

 

If anybody'd like him to post on a specific poem, I'm sure he'd post it with explanations and all.

 

Kobo.

[tianjinpete]

Thanks for this post ... Readers may also be interested in a classical Chinese (mostly Tang) translation blog by Andrew W.F. Wong 黃宏發 (Hong Kong):

 

http://chinesepoemsinenglish.blogspot.com/

[Kobo-Daishi]

 

Discovered could zoom in for larger view in Okular pdf viewer for Linux so have updated the photo from first post.

 

Was going to edit my original post, but, somehow the edit button missing in this forum.

 

Kobo.

 

Edit. Found edit button in faint letters at bottom of post.

[Kobo-Daishi]

@Tinjinpete.

 

Thanks for the 4-11.

 

Maybe we ought to start a Dead Chinese Poets Society.   ;-)

 

船張,我的船長

 

I'm standing on top of my flat screen monitor as I'm typing.

 

My 輕功 training is finally starting to pay off. 

 

Kobo.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Disregard post #3.

 

It turns out Tinypic reduces the size of the images they receive, so, it wasn't that I had uploaded a small print image the first time.

 

Kobo.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Here's another site with the 300 Tang Poems.

 

http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi

 

Though, same translation, the good thing is that you can hover over a character and get a definition.

 

The bad thing is that not all the characters show up. Might be because I'm on Linux and don't know how to format to get all the characters.

 

Kobo.

[oceancalligraphy]

The link to the University of Virginia site is dead. Would anyone happen to know the new site address? I've been searching but haven't found it.

[edelweis]

@yst

The wikipedia article now has a link to the university of Virginia:

http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=Chinese/uvaGenText/tei/300_tang_poems/HanTang.xml