The Poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762
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The Poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762 - Arthur Waley
Arthur Waley, Bai Li
The Poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762
EAN 8596547023975
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
XXXI. 25.
THE TEXT OF THE POEMS.
TRANSLATIONS
II. 7. Ku Fēng , No. 6
III. 1. The Distant Parting
III. 4. The Szechwan Road
III. 15. Fighting
III. 16. Drinking Song
III. 26. The Sun
IV. 19. On the Banks of Jo-yeh
IV. 24. Ch’ang-kan
VII. 4. River Song
XIII. 11. Sent to the Commissary Yüan of Ch’iao City, in Memory of Former Excursions
XV. 2. A Dream of T’ien-mu Mountain
XV. 16. Parting with Friends at a Wineshop in Nanking
XV. 28. At Chiang-hsia, parting from Sung Chih-t’i
XX. 1. The White River at Nan-yang
XX. 1. The Clear Cold Spring
XX. 8. Going down Chung-nan Mountain and spending the Night drinking with the Hermit Tou-ssŭ
XXIII. 3. Drinking alone by Moonlight
XXIII. 9. In the Mountains on a Summer Day
XXIII. 10. Drinking together in the Mountains
XXIII. 10. Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
XXIII. 13. Self-Abandonment
XXV. 1. To Tan Ch’iu
XXX. 8. Clearing up at Dawn
DISCUSSION ON THE FOREGOING PAPER
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
Since the Middle Ages the Chinese have been almost unanimous in regarding Li Po as their greatest poet, and the few who have given the first place to his contemporary Tu Fu have usually accorded the second to Li.
One is reluctant to disregard the verdict of a people upon its own poets. We are sometimes told by Frenchmen or Russians that Oscar Wilde is greater than Shakespeare. We are tempted to reply that no foreigner can be qualified to decide such a point.
Yet we do not in practice accept the judgment of other nations upon their own literature. To most Germans Schiller is still a great poet; but to the rest of Europe hardly one at all.
It is consoling to discover that on some Germans (Lilienkron, for example) Schiller makes precisely the same impression as he does on us. And similarly, if we cannot accept the current estimate of Li Po, we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that some of China’s most celebrated writers are on our side. About
A.D.
816 the poet Po Chü-i wrote as follows (he is discussing Tu Fu as well as Li Po): "The world acclaims Li Po as its master poet. I grant that his works show unparalleled talent and originality, but not one in ten contains any moral reflection or deeper meaning.
"Tu Fu’s poems are very numerous; perhaps about 1,000 of them are worth preserving. In the art of stringing together allusions ancient and modern and in the skill