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Xie Lingyun was a descendant of two of the most important families of the later Eastern Jin times, the Xie and the Wang families. [1] His paternal grandfather was the general Xie Xuan, a general who is best known for repelling the Former Qin army at the Battle of Fei River, thus preventing the Former Qin emperor Fu Jiān from destroying Jin, and thus allowing the continuation of the southern ...
Xie Lingyun (385–433) was considered a progenitor and major exponent of nature or landscape poetry focusing on the "mountain and streams", as opposed to Tao Yuanming and the "field and garden" type of Chinese landscape poetry. His poetry is allusive and complex, and uses a lot of imagery of hills and nature.
Xie Lingyun is the best-known poet of the Liu Song period and is generally considered one of the greatest of the entire Six Dynasties period, second only to Tao Yuanming. In contrast Tao, Xie is known for difficult language, dense allusions, and frequent parallelisms. [ 32 ]
In contrast to his older contemporary Tao, Xie is known for the difficult language, dense allusions, and frequent parallelisms of his poetry. [25] Xie's greatest fu is "Fu on Dwelling in the Mountains" (Shān jū fù 山居賦), a Han-style "grand fu" describing Xie's personal estate that borrows its style from the famous "Fu on the Imperial ...
Fan Ye: Book of the Later Han (後漢書, Hòuhàn Shū) You Ming Lu (幽明錄, Collection of Supernatural Tales) Zhengao (真誥, Declarations of the Perfected) Tao Yuanming; Xie Lingyun; Xie Tiao; Shen Yue; Sanskrit:
“I couldn’t remove a book because it has ideas we don’t like,” says Bette Davis’s character in a “Storm Center,” a 1956 drama about Communism and book banning.
The title of the anthology originates from the poem "A letter from Li Po" by Conrad Aiken.The book uses a section of this poem as an epigraph.D. Holzman, a book reviewer for T'oung Pao, wrote that the choice of the title of the anthology was inappropriate because while, in 1978, sunflowers grew in Beijing and Chinese provinces in the late summer period, sunflowers had been introduced to China ...
P. N. Review is a periodic publication in the United Kingdom, on the subject of poetry. Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section. It is indexed by the Modern Language Association.