Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*Profound Learning, Personal Knowledge, and Poetic Vision, pg. 3*Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and Its Relation to Chinese Cosmology, pg. 32*The Paradox of Poetics and the Poetics of Paradox, pg. 49*The Self's Perfect Mirror: Poetry as Autobiography, pg. 71*Description of Landscape in Early Six Dynasties Poetry, pg. 105*The Decline and Revival of Feng-ku (Wind and Bone): On the Changing Poetic Styles from the Chien-an Era through the High T'ang Period, pg. 130*Verses from on High: The Ascent of T'ai Shan, pg. 167*The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry, pg. 217*The Development of Han and Wei Yueh-fu as a High Literary Genre, pg. 255*The Legacy of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Yiiehju Tradition and Its Further Development in T'ang Poetry, pg. 287*The Nature of the Quatrain from the Late Han to the High T'ang, pg. 296*The Aesthetics of Regulated Verse, pg. 332*Contributors, pg. 387*Index, pg. 391*Studies on China, pg. 407