Mirages on the Sea of Time : the Taoist Poetry of Ts'ao T'Ang
by Schafer, Edward H
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Floating World Editions. New. 2008. Paperback. 1891640453 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- 168 pages. Description: "Since the early seventeenth century, Taoism - the native religion of China - has been generally regarded by authorities there as base superstition and potentially subversive. The Taoist poetry of medieval China was consequently ignored by Chinese arbiters of taste and, until recently, most Western scholars and translators have accepted this judgment uncritically; a body of beautiful verse, with analogs in the poetry of Christian mysticism, has remained virtually unknown in our time. This book augments the efforts of a few contemporary Western scholars to recover the meaning and value of this literary heritage. The eminent sinologist Edward H. Shafer translated all the surviving verse of the ninth-century poet Ts'ao T'ang, and to the selections published here has added introductory remarks on the source of the poet's imagery and short essays on his treatment of figures of the Taoist pantheon. Ts'ao T'ang has placed these deities in celestial gardens, sparkling palaces on the summits of sacred mountains, and secret places of rendezvous on magic islands in the eastern sea. The poet creates a world of illusions, in which it is difficult to distinguish vestments from rainbows, castles from crags, birds from spirits, sea-waves from sea-mounts - even lords from ladies. These contrived wonders are all metaphors for a world completely inaccessible to our mortal senses." -- with a bonus offer-- .
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- Mirages on the Sea of Time : the Taoist Poetry of Ts'ao T'Ang
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- Schafer, Edward H
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- ISBN 10
- 1891640453
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- 9781891640452
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- Floating World Editions
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- 2008
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