The Social Circulation of Poetry in the Mid-Northern Song Dr James Taylor

The Social Circulation of Poetry in the Mid-Northern Song Dr James TaylorExplores how literati of China's mid Northern Song period developed a social and therapeutic tradition in poetry. Includes a number of translations of the witty poems of the period. Observing that the vast majority of surviving Northern Song poems are directly addressed to other people, Colin S. C. Hawes explores how literati of China's mid Northern Song period developed a social and therapeutic tradition in poetry. These social poems, produced in

many of which have been out of print for a century

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