A Lute of Jade
1909
L. Cranmer-Byng's 1909 selection from the Chinese poets, from the Odes of Confucius and Ch'u Yuan through the T'ang masters to Ou-Yang Hsiu. An introduction of six essays covers the ancient ballads, the T'ang court, verse form and the influence of religion, then each poet is given a short life and a handful of poems. Po Chu-i takes the largest share, including The Never-ending Wrong and the Lute Girl.
- Preface
- Introduction
- Poetry before the T’angs
- The Poets of the T’ang Dynasty
- A Poet's Emperor
- Chinese Verse Form
- The Influence of Religion on Chinese Poetry
- The Odes of Confucius
- Ch’u Yuan
- Wang Seng-ju
- Ch’en Tzu Ang
- Sung Chih-Wen
- Kao-Shih
- Meng Hao-jan
- Ch’ang Ch’ien
- Ts’en-Ts’an
- Tu Fu
- Li Po
- Wang Ch’ang-ling
- Chang Chih-ho
- Chang Jo-hu
- T’ung Han-ching
- Po Chu-i
- Li Hua
- Ssu-K’ung T’u
- Ou-Yang Hsiu of Lu-ling
- Appendix