The Poetry of the Early T'Ang
By Stephen Owen
1977
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Originally published to great acclaim by Yale University Press as "The Poetry of the Early T'ang" in 1977, this Quirin Press Revised Edition offers the full original text with the following Older Wade-Giles transliteration fully updated and revised to the current Pinyin standard. Fully re-typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies. New expanded index. In "The Poetry of the Early Tang" Owen deftly traces the slow transition from the rigid codified poetry that centered around the court to the new freedom it attained in the early eighth century. Along the way Owen offers an in-depth overview of the rise of early Tang poetry that extends from the foundation of the dynasty in 618 until roughly 713. Chinese Poetry - Tang dynasty 618-907 - Poetics - History & criticism. Owen's companion volume "The Great Age of Chinese The High Tang" is also available from Quirin Press 978-1-922169-06-8 (paperback). For further information and extracts of this title visit www.quirinpress.com
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Stephen Owen
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Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books, articles, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature, especially Chinese poetry, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu, which was published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982, before coming to Harvard. In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors.
