The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125) (Sinica Leidensia)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Brief Chronology of the Life of He Zhu......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
 The Approach: Genre, Contexts, and Individual Voice......Page 17
 Conventions and Texts Used in this Study......Page 21
  Other Transcriptions......Page 22
  Meter......Page 23
  Poem Numbers and Texts......Page 25
Chapter One THE ANCIENT-STYLE VERSE OF HE ZHU, 1078–98......Page 27
  1078: The Contingency of Historical Judgment......Page 28
  1079: Reportage......Page 30
  1080: Time......Page 36
  1080: Animals and the Question of Allegory......Page 42
  1080: Variations on the Poetic Heritage......Page 48
 1081: A Transitional Year......Page 51
  1082: Tang Echoes, Su Shi......Page 53
  1083: More Celebration of Su Shi......Page 60
  1084: ~Zai, Tang Predecessors......Page 62
  1085: The Ironic Traveler......Page 65
  Word Games......Page 69
  Imitations......Page 71
 1088: Fanghui's Version of the Zhang Liang Saga......Page 79
  Gardens and Temples......Page 89
  Ten Historical Sites in Liyang......Page 99
  Teasing Mi Fu at Jinshan......Page 101
  1091: Wit in the Su Shi Mode......Page 104
  1093: The Past Recovered......Page 105
 1094: No-Mind in Hailing......Page 111
  The Inscription For Zhou Dunyi's Thatched Hall......Page 115
  The Reinterpretation of Tao Yuanming......Page 120
  Obfuscation......Page 125
  1096: The Connoisseur......Page 130
  1096 and 1097: History......Page 132
  1098: Watchful Eyes......Page 135
 Further Thoughts on Imitation, Inscriptions, and Rhyme......Page 136
Chapter Two THE SONGS OF HE ZHU, 1080–98......Page 140
  1080: An Ancient Site in Handan......Page 141
  1084–85: Sites and Poetry Sessions in Xuzhou......Page 145
  1088: A Suite Experiment......Page 156
  Liyang Experiments in 1089 and 1090......Page 161
  1090–92: Innovative Songs from Jinling......Page 168
  A Gift Enhanced by Rhyme (I)......Page 172
  Laments......Page 175
  First Farewell Songs......Page 179
  Tao Yuanming Outdone......Page 183
  Leftover Elder of Mirror Lake......Page 186
  Tao Yuanming Out of Reach......Page 188
  History......Page 193
  A Gift Enhanced by Rhyme (II)......Page 194
  East Slope......Page 197
 Innovations in Songs: A Brief Review......Page 201
 Poems Written before Xuzhou......Page 203
  1084: Imitation of an Extended Regulated Verse......Page 209
  1084: Twin Views from the Delightful! Pavilion......Page 217
  Rhymed Opening Couplets......Page 222
 1087: In the Capital......Page 238
 1088–90: The Liyang and Jinling Area......Page 240
 The Capital......Page 253
  1091: Civil Classification......Page 254
  1092: Stretching Form......Page 258
 1093–94: Leaving the Capital......Page 263
  Mi Fu......Page 266
  Going Upriver: Diction from the Past......Page 271
  Hanyang: Responses to Assaults on History......Page 273
  1096–97: This is not Li Shangyin......Page 277
  1098: Farewell to a Buddhist Magistrate......Page 280
 Pleasures and Precedents in Regulated Verse......Page 282
 Issues of Form......Page 284
 Situations in Which the Heptametrical Regulated Verse was Used......Page 287
  1075: First-line Rhyme......Page 288
  1077, 1079: Order in Landscape, Order in Couplets......Page 291
  Celebration of Place and Complexity......Page 295
  Precedents to be Overturned or Celebrated......Page 300
  Anomalous Form......Page 304
  Playing with the Rhythm of the Line......Page 311
  Zhao Lingzhi, Zhao Lingshuai......Page 315
  Wang Anshi......Page 319
  "First Poems"......Page 321
  ABAB Sequences......Page 326
  1090–91: Absence in Jinling......Page 334
 1091: Two Clever Social Poems in the Capital......Page 342
 1093–94: Hailing Ambiguities......Page 346
  Another Exile......Page 356
  1096: Up the Yangzi......Page 359
 1096–98: Hanyang and Jiangxia......Page 366
  An Extended Regulated Verse......Page 367
  Equanimity in Jiangxia......Page 370
  Qin Guan, Lü Dafang, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian......Page 373
 A Summary......Page 381
Chapter Five THE PENTAMETRICAL QUATRAINS OF HE ZHU, 1085–98......Page 383
 1085: Xuzhou......Page 386
  1086: Relationships with Past Poetry......Page 390
  1087: Ten Songs on Autumn Days......Page 395
 1088–90: Liyang and Quatrains for Monks......Page 401
 1091–92: Outspoken in the Capital......Page 406
 1095: Quirky in the Capital......Page 410
 1097–98: Mining the Past in Jiangxia......Page 412
 Addendum: Hexametrical Quatrains in the Capital, 1086 and 1092......Page 415
 New Life for the Pentametrical Quatrain......Page 419
Chapter Six THE HEPTAMETRICAL QUATRAINS OF HE ZHU, 1077–95......Page 421
  1077: Quiet Scenes in Zhaozhou......Page 424
  1080: Restraint in Fuyang......Page 428
  1081: Making It Fresh......Page 433
 1081: Disingenuous Quatrains in the Daming Area......Page 435
 1081 and 1082: In and Out of the Capital......Page 438
 1083 and 1085: Xuzhou......Page 440
 1086–87 The Capital......Page 443
  1088–89: Southern Scenes......Page 450
  1089–91: The Society of Others......Page 452
  1091 and 1092: Spring Wind in the Capital......Page 456
  1094: Farewells in Hailing......Page 459
 1096: Up the River to Jiangxia......Page 461
 1096–98: Hanyang and Jiangxia......Page 463
 Closing thoughts on This Genre and the Lyric......Page 467
CONCLUSION......Page 468
Chronology of Poems Translated or Mentioned......Page 472
Bibliography......Page 480
Four-Corner Index of Poems Translated......Page 494
Index of Poems by Poem Number......Page 498
Index......Page 502