Take the harp and sing

"Singing with the Lute" provides an effective way to understand modern poetry by analyzing several outstanding Chinese poets and their poems, including Lin Huiyin, Mu Dan, Gu Cheng, Haizi, Ma Yan, etc., hoping to make readers no longer timid and at a loss when facing an unfamiliar poem, and when facing a familiar poem, they can also restore what Keats called "passive sensibility" - in the face of beauty, a person has the ability to withstand anxiety, confusion, and doubt, rather than impatiently seeking facts and reasons.
This book is Waits' second short book on Chinese poetry, following "Since I Met the Gentleman: Poetry and People in Past Ages." This time, it focuses on modern poetry, still in its infancy. If we can use this book to identify poetry worthy of our trust, experience it, explore it, be filled by it, and embrace its promise, we will gain something—a gain not of knowledge but of heart and experience, a renewal of heart and experience, like a love affair or a strange storm. Ultimately, within the vast landscape of the Chinese language built by the finest native poets, we continue to share and extend the vastness of the Chinese language, made even more expansive by their presence.

2018-06-01

华东师范大学出版社

208

9787567576582