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Description:Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although he had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political power, Wang rose to no less a position than Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian social reforms in an effort to improve the lives of China s dispossessed peasants. Wang then left politics and followed his true interest retiring to a reclusive life of artistic and spiritual self-cultivation. It was after his retirement that Wang An-shih wrote the poems on which his reputation is based. Wang spent those later years practicing Ch an (Zen) Buddhism and wandering the mountains around his home, and that Taoist/Ch an cultivation of the rivers-and-mountains realm shapes his poems. These late poems are short and plain-spoken, but always with profound resonances. They won him wide acclaim across the centuries in China and beyond; and here he enters English for the first time, feeling like a major contemporary poet who is especially interesting for the deeply ecological approach of his poetic thinking."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih. To get started finding The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although he had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political power, Wang rose to no less a position than Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian social reforms in an effort to improve the lives of China s dispossessed peasants. Wang then left politics and followed his true interest retiring to a reclusive life of artistic and spiritual self-cultivation. It was after his retirement that Wang An-shih wrote the poems on which his reputation is based. Wang spent those later years practicing Ch an (Zen) Buddhism and wandering the mountains around his home, and that Taoist/Ch an cultivation of the rivers-and-mountains realm shapes his poems. These late poems are short and plain-spoken, but always with profound resonances. They won him wide acclaim across the centuries in China and beyond; and here he enters English for the first time, feeling like a major contemporary poet who is especially interesting for the deeply ecological approach of his poetic thinking."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih. To get started finding The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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