The masters Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei are well represented here. Volume 1 covers the 'ancient verse' style in five-character lines (poems 1 to 35), and 'folk song style verse' (36 to 45). It comprises six volumes, with poems grouped by verse form. The collection 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' was compiled around 1763. Nearly 50,000 poems of the Tang have survived. Poetry was the epitome of the arts: a scholastic requirement, a route to fame, a moulder of character. The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and music all reached peaks of perfection. There are also links to the texts in Chinese and English. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the authors, the titles in English and the LibriVox readers. LibriVox recording of Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1, in the public domain.
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