Classical Poetry

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Song Poetry Anthology: Yunchao Poems cover
Rating 3.8
Song Poetry Anthology: Yunchao Poems 沈辽 · 2025 Song poetry emerged after Tang poetry and developed its own distinctive character, representing another peak of Song culture alongside Song ci. During…
The Poems of Lu You cover
Rating 4.0
The Poems of Lu You 黄逸之 / 雷黎明 The Commercial Press · 2024 Lu You is a famous patriotic poet and ci writer in Chinese history. Some 9,300 of his poems survive, with patriotic thought and moral strength forming…
Collection of Victory Odes for Athletic Contests and Games cover
Rating 4.3
Collection of Victory Odes for Athletic Contests and Games 品达 / 刘皓明 Peking University Press · 2025 The Greek poet Pindar has long been hailed as the foremost lyric poet of the West. His work is singular in form, distinctive in style, and bold in lan…
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Rating 2.4
The Softest Part Within the Bones 王保友 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 The Softest Part of the Bone is a poetry collection featuring over a hundred standout modern poems written between 2014 and 2016 during the author's r…
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Rating 3.5
Chinese Virtues in Classical Poetry 方笑一 / 戎默 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 Centered on traditional Chinese virtues and classified by theme—such as concern for the world, benevolence and love for others, honoring elders and ha…
Tang Poetry Road Research Series (Volume 2): Convergence and Transformation of the Tang Poetry Road in Eastern Zhejiang cover
Rating 3.3
Tang Poetry Road Research Series (Volume 2): Convergence and Transformation of the Tang Poetry Road in Eastern Zhejiang 杨琼 / 胡秋妍 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 The "Road of Tang Poetry in eastern Zhejiang" was a cultural route along which Tang poets traveled frequently through eastern Zhejiang—whether roaming…
Dust-Covered Mementos, Close Friends, and Dreams: A Poetic Biography of Wisława Szymborska cover
Rating 4.2
Dust-Covered Mementos, Close Friends, and Dreams: A Poetic Biography of Wisława Szymborska 安娜·比孔特 / 尤安娜·什琛斯纳 / 赵祯 / 许湘健 Oriental Press · 2024 Dusty Mementos, Dear Friends, and Dreams: A Poetic Biography of Wisława Szymborska is published with the authorization of the Wisława Szymborska Found…
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Rating 2.9
Casual Drafts from Shaocun 黄廷用 · 2024 Later poetry flourished in the Tang, yet the exile of Li Bai and the sojourn of Du Fu show that many wrote best in hardship, while as for a literary c…
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Rating 2.5
The Sparkle in the Hand 韦武康 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is a poetry collection. Rooted in the rich soil of the Zhuang homeland, the poet Wei Wukang writes with an unassuming yet highly original touch a…
Passing the Torch in the Valley: Third Collection cover
Rating 2.7
Passing the Torch in the Valley: Third Collection 朱啸 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Valley Legacy: A Third Collection is a poetry anthology compiled by the Xiushui Valley Poetry Society. Two previous volumes have already been publishe…
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500 Seven-Character Quatrains by Guo Suhuai 郭苏淮 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Guo Suhuai's 500 Seven-Character Quatrains is a collection of classical-style poetry written and published by the elderly poet Guo Suhuai after his re…
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Rating 2.3
Watching Over Jilan 念琪 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Jilan is a small mountain village in Fuqing. The author borrows the name for a poetry collection as a way of watching over it, and the village itself …
I Want to Love You When My Hair Turns White cover
Rating 2.6
I Want to Love You When My Hair Turns White 郭羽 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is a love-poetry collection by the renowned poet Guo Yu, dedicated to his wife Xie Xin. It gathers more than a hundred poems marked by sincere an…
Complete Ci Poems of Chen Guan cover
Rating 2.9
Complete Ci Poems of Chen Guan 陈瓘 / 子昂传媒 · 2024 This collection of ci poetry is part of the Complete Song Ci. Ci poetry began in the Southern Liang, took shape in the Tang, and reached its height in…
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Rating 3.7
The Ci Examination and Southern Song Literature 管琴 Peking University Press · 2025 The first study to take the ci-specialized examination (cike) as its central topic, this book examines the relationship between the Song dynasty civil…
So Many Shadows of the Heart: Ye Jiaying Lectures on Ten Ci Poets cover
Rating 4.6
So Many Shadows of the Heart: Ye Jiaying Lectures on Ten Ci Poets Chiaying Yeh / 萧丽 Peking University Press · 2025 Ten Shades of the Heart: Ye Jiaying on Ten Ci Poets is the edited transcript of lectures given by Ye Jiaying in Beijing and Tianjin in recent years, d…
The Top 100 Tang Poems: English Rhymed Translations with Selected Reviews of Famous Translators' Versions cover
Rating 4.0
The Top 100 Tang Poems: English Rhymed Translations with Selected Reviews of Famous Translators' Versions 王兆鹏 / 赵锦文 · 2024 Translator-critic Zhao Jinwen, working from Professor Wang Zhaopeng's Ranking of Tang Poems and guided by the "new liberal arts" concept, renders into…
Su Dongpo Speaks: Stories from Su Dongpo's Poetry and Prose cover
Rating 3.5
Su Dongpo Speaks: Stories from Su Dongpo's Poetry and Prose 崔铭 / 崔诗晨 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024 His life was a dramatic succession of triumphs and reversals, yet he remained open-hearted and optimistic throughout—healing, enlightening, and enrich…
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Rating 2.8
The Complete Poems of Wu Zetian 曹寅 / 彭定求 / 奉敕 / 子昂文化 · 2024 Xi and Nong first emerged; Xuan and Hao received the mandate. Tang and Yu followed in succession; Tang and Yu seized the moment. The realm is bathed i…
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Rating 3.0
30 Songs and Poems for Children (Part 1) 戴学忱 / 李瑾华 / 杨华 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This book is aimed primarily at children aged 4–7. It contains 30 widely circulated five- and seven-character poems, with one school song, "Su Wu Herd…