book on poems

[randall_flagg]

Hey there! I'm looking for a book to help me interpret Chinese poems (mainly Tang poems).

Can anyone recommend such a thing, preferably in Chinese? I am not looking for translations; I want to understand the deeper meaning, innuendos and the like. So fully analyses would be nice.

Thanks,

Randall

[roddy]

I can't vouch for how useful it is, but a link to this was posted a while ago. At the very least it is free.

[randall_flagg]

YES!!!!! I almost wet my pants as I scanned through this book! Thanks!

[student]

One I've found very rewarding, though much less detailed than the one above, is

Five Lectures on Chinese Poetry. - LU ZHIWEI

available online at

(scroll down past the russian to get to the links to the text of each of the lectures).

Also, not online as far as I know, but very helpful to me is:

Fifty-Five T'ang Poems, A text in the reading and understanding of T'ang Poetry

by Hugh M. Stimson, Yale University Press.

and

A Little Primer of Tu Fu

by David Hawkes, Oxford

Actually, if the last two are by some chance online somewhere, I'd love to know the link!

[student]

For some reason I get an error message when I try to include the hyperlink

The error message I get is

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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.chinese-forums.com Port 80

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the link I wanted to include, suitably deconstructed so that I can post it, is

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The precondition on the request for the URL /newthread.php evaluated to false.

baruchim dot narod dot ru slash LuZhiwei dot html

(delete the spaces, change dot to . and change slash to /)

very strange.