The Road to East Slope: The Development of Su Shi's Poetic Voice

Su Shi (1037-1101) is the greatest poet of the Song Dynasty, a man whose writings and image defined some of the enduring central themes of the Chinese cultural tradition. Su Shi was not only the best poet of his time, he was also a government official, a major prose stylist, a noted calligrapher, an avid herbalist, a dabbler in alchemy, and a broadly learned scholar. The author shows how this complex personality was embodied in Su Shi's work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope.

Author: Michael A. Fuller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/01/1990
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780804715874