Concept
Chinese poetry
Overview
Poetical art developed in China
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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In spite of the many good things that may be said to the credit of Hung Wu, he will ever be remembered in connection with a form of evil which has eaten into the very heart of the nation. This was the system of triennial examinations, or rather the form of Chinese composition, called the "Essay," or the "Eight Legs," which, for the first time in the history of Chinese literature, was made the basis of all literary…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
Close in meaning to Chinese poetry; the term itself is not named.
When Positivist education has extended sufficiently to the People of the West, poets and musicians will spontaneously arise, as in many cases they have already risen, to give expression to its own special aspirations. But independently of what may be due to individual efforts, the People as a whole has an indirect but most important influence upon the Progress of Art, from the fact of being the principal source of…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
Close in meaning to Chinese poetry; the term itself is not named.
By this practice, carried on with genial passion, the really poetic mode of thought was established. We allowed objects, events, persons, to stand for themselves in all their bearings, our only endeavour being to comprehend them clearly, and exhibit them vividly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
Close in meaning to Chinese poetry; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Chinese poetry
Related ideas
- Folklore
- Six Dynasties
- Mandarin Chinese
- Mao Zedong
- Yuan dynasty
- Poetry
- Imperial examination
- Qing dynasty
- Taiwan
- Burning of books and burying of scholars
- Surrealism
- James Legge
- Classic of Poetry
- Ming dynasty
- Tang dynasty
- Han dynasty
- Ezra Pound
- China
- Song dynasty
- Chinese language
- History of China
- Arthur Waley
- Avant-garde
- Routledge
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Confucianism.