This is exactly why I thought the Penguin Little Black classics would be great. This edition contains three poets from the Tang Dynasty and I will be the first to admit that it wasn't something that I would have usually picked. But I'm very glad that I read it now, because I was most pleasantly surp...
I particularly enjoy the additional material at the end. It's actually quite a good collection covering war, politics, nature, and dance
Pastoral poetry from three Tang dynasty poets; Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu, in eighth century China.The full beauty of the poems is obviously lost in translation, but they are evocative of eighth century China with their wonderful descriptions of nature and common people feeling the desire to remain e...
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