T'ao Yuan-ming: His works and their meaning: Tr. Davis<|

T'ao Yan-ming: Volume 1, Translation and CommentaryHis works and their meaning\nAuthor(s): A. R. Davis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521104524, 978-0521104524\nSynopsis\nAll the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD [tel] generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal integrity and the meaning of man's life. His poetry for this reason may be able to transcend the barriers of cultural difference. For centuries of Chinese readers, however, the image of T'ao Yuan-ming as an eccentric wine-loving recluse who embraced purity and simplicity and rejected the corruption of political society has virtually been as important as his own writing. Studies of the poet, from the Sung dynasty on, have applied a political interpretation of his work. The author bel.