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... poetic , it retains the features of prose without being necessarily prosaic . This accounts for the variety of labels given to the fu in English by writers on Chinese litera- ture - poetic prose , rhyme prose , prose poem , rhapsody ...
... poetic , it retains the features of prose without being necessarily prosaic . This accounts for the variety of labels given to the fu in English by writers on Chinese litera- ture - poetic prose , rhyme prose , prose poem , rhapsody ...
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... poem of early Chinese literature ( 353 lines ) , it relates the tragedy of a young married couple who had committed suicide as the result of the cruelty of the husband's mother . The ballad was probably first sung shortly after AD 200 ...
... poem of early Chinese literature ( 353 lines ) , it relates the tragedy of a young married couple who had committed suicide as the result of the cruelty of the husband's mother . The ballad was probably first sung shortly after AD 200 ...
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... poets of the T'ang dynasty , a lover of detachment and freedom , deliberately avoided the lü - shih and chose the less formal verse forms to sing of friendship or wine . An example is the poem " To Tan - Ch'iu , " translated by Arthur ...
... poets of the T'ang dynasty , a lover of detachment and freedom , deliberately avoided the lü - shih and chose the less formal verse forms to sing of friendship or wine . An example is the poem " To Tan - Ch'iu , " translated by Arthur ...
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CHINA | 36 |
CHINESE LITERATURE | 231 |
CHORDATES CHRISTIANITY | 251 |
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