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CONTENTS

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[Introduction][9]
[Ch‘ü Yüan]:—
[The Great Summons][13]
[Wang Wei]:—
[Prose Letter][23]
[Li Po]:—
[Drinking Alone by Moonlight][27]
[In the Mountains on a Summer Day][29]
[Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day][30]
[Self-Abandonment][31]
[To Tan Ch‘iu][32]
[Clearing at Dawn][33]
[Po Chü-i]:—
[Life of Po Chü-i][35]
[After Passing the Examination][37]
[Escorting Candidates to the Examination Hall][38]
[In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight][39]
[Sick Leave][40]
[Watching the Reapers][41]
[Going Alone to Spend a Night at the Hsien-Yu Temple][42]
[Planting Bamboos][43]
[To Li Chien][44]
[At the End of Spring][45]
[The Poem on the Wall][46]
[Chu Ch‘ēn Village][47]
[Fishing in the Wei River][50]
[Lazy Man’s Song][51]
[Illness and Idleness][52]
[Winter Night][53]
[The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden][54]
[Poems in Depression, at Wei Village][55]
[To His Brother Hsing-Chien, Who was in Tung-Ch‘uan][56]
[Starting Early from the Ch‘u-Ch‘ēng Inn][57]
[Rain][58]
[The Beginning of Summer][59]
[Visiting the Hsi-Lin Temple][60]
[Prose Letter to Yüan Chēn][61]
[Hearing the Early Oriole][65]
[Dreaming that I Went with Lu and Yu to Visit Yüan Chēn][66]
[The Fifteenth Volume][67]
[Invitation to Hsiao Chü-Shih][68]
[To Li Chien][69]
[The Spring River][70]
[After Collecting the Autumn Taxes][71]
[Lodging with the Old Man of the Stream][72]
[To His Brother Hsing-Chien][73]
[The Pine-Trees in the Courtyard][74]
[Sleeping on Horseback][76]
[Parting from the Winter Stove][77]
[Good-Bye to the People of Hangchow][78]
[Written when Governor of Soochow][79]
[Getting Up Early on a Spring Morning][80]
[Losing a Slave-Girl][81]
[The Grand Houses at Lo-Yang][82]
[The Cranes][83]
[On His Baldness][84]
[Thinking of the Past][85]
[A Mad Poem Addressed to My Nephews and Nieces][87]
[Old Age][88]
[To a Talkative Guest][89]
[To Liu Yü-Hsi][90]
[My Servant Wakes Me][91]
[Since I Lay Ill][92]
[Song of Past Feelings][93]
[Illness][96]
[Resignation][97]
[Yüan Chēn]:—
[The Story of Ts‘ui Ying-Ying][101]
[The Pitcher][114]
[Po Hsing-Chien]:—
[The Story of Miss Li][117]
[Wang Chien]:—
[Hearing that His Friend was Coming Back from the War][137]
[The South][138]
[Ou-Yang Hsiu]:—
[Autumn][141]
[Appendix][144]

INTRODUCTION

This book is not intended to be representative of Chinese literature as a whole. I have chosen and arranged chronologically various pieces which interested me and which it seemed possible to translate adequately.