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Criticism · LT802
Poetry Talks
Aesthetic treatises and connoisseurial remarks analyzing poetic beauty and meters.
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Two critics consider plum petals falling beside a winter branch in a quiet scene of poetic judgment.
- Letter to Yuan Zhen · ExcerptPoetry has feeling for its root, words for its shoots, sound for its flowers and meaning for its fruit.
- Letter in Reply to Li YiI strove only to get rid of stale words, and how grinding and hard it was!
- The Twenty-Four Categories of PoetryWithout a single word set down, all its grace is captured.
- The Original Incidents of PoemsA broken mirror made whole: Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan reunited at last.
- Remarks on Poetry from the Sui GardenFrom the Three Hundred Poems to this day, every poem that endures springs from native sensibility, not from piled-up learning.
- Poetic Remarks in the Human WorldIn ci poetry, jingjie is supreme: with it, a lyric attains a loftiness of its own and yields famous lines of its own.