In:
Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 2, No. 2 ( 1830-07), p. 393-461
Abstract:
In the arrangement of our subject, it may perhaps be useful to preserve so much regard to method, as to treat of it separately, under the two following heads: Part I. Versification, or the particular rules which prevail in the mere construction of lines, couplets, and stanzas; and the sources whence these derive their melody and rythm. Part II. A general view of the style and spirit of Chinese poetry, the character of its imagery and sentiment, and the extent to which it seems to admit of a precise classification, relatively to the divisions and nomenclature adopted in European literature. To such as should find the first portion of our treatise dry and technical in its details, the second may possibly prove more attractive: but the order of discussion could hardly be inverted with propriety.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0950-4737
,
2051-2058
DOI:
10.1017/S0950473700000525
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1830
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2534019-0
SSG:
25
