Chapter VIII: Appendix

An essay on Po Chü-i, whose poems occupy most of this book, will be found in “170 Chinese Poems.” The fullest account of Li Po’s life (with translations) is given in a paper read by me to the China Society, and published in the _Asiatic Review_, July, 1919. Notices of Ch‘ü Yüan, Wang Wei, Yüan Chēn, Wang Chien and Ou-yang Hsiu will be found in Giles’s “Biographical Dictionary.” To Wang Chieh Po Chü-i addressed several poems.

Of the 68 pieces in this book, 55 are now translated for the first time. Of the eight poems by Li Po, all but Number 6 have been translated before, some of them by several hands.

Among the poems by Po Chü-i, three (Nos. 11, 12, and 44) have been translated by Woitsch[1] and one, (No. 43), very incorrectly, by Pfizmaier. Another (No. 21) was translated into rhymed verse by Prof. Giles in “Adversaria Sinica” (1914), p. 323. Ou-yang Hsiu’s “Autumn” was translated by Giles (with great freedom in many places) in his “Chinese Literature,” p. 215.

[1] Aus den Gedichten Po Chü-i’s. Peking, 1908.

[Transcriber’s Note: The following apparent misprints have been corrected for this electronic edition: Patient carrier of towel and comb,[2] --as printed, cited footnote 1, which is inapplicable and not on page

“Because you are my cousin, “Then came the sharing of pillow and mat, “Now, having ‘seen my Prince,’ --as printed, all were missing opening “

Footnote 3: See p. 58, “170 Chinese Poems,” Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
--as printed, See p, 58,

with bedclothes under her arm
--as printed, bed-clothes]

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