"[This] books could be learn by way of all these attracted to chinese language poetry."—Achilles Fang, Poetry
"[This is] an important contribution to the certainty and appreciation of chinese language poetry, lucidly provided in a manner that might allure a large viewers, and supplying an unique synthesis of chinese language and Western perspectives that might stimulate and encourage scholars of poetry everywhere."—Hans H. Frankel, Harvard magazine of Asiatic Studies
"This is a ebook which are instructed with out reservation to an individual who desires to discover the realm of chinese language poetry in translation."—James R. Hightower, Journal of Asian Studies
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