Date of Completion
2025
Document Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
School of World Languages and Cultures
Thesis Type
Honors College, College of Arts and Science Honors
First Advisor
Kyle Ikeda
Second Advisor
John Jing-hua Yin
Third Advisor
Antonello Borra
Keywords
Chinese, Japanese, Tang poetry, comparative
Abstract
This paper compares the Japanese anthology Tang Poetry Selections (Tōshisen 唐詩選), with commentary by Takagi Masakazu (高木正一), to three anthologies of Tang poetry by American sinologist Stephen Owen, The Poetry of the Early T'ang, The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'ang, and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860). Henceforth these will be referred to as Early, High, and Late. This paper will first discuss the history of the different literary environments these works were created in and how these differences influence each author's methods, style, and authorial intent; next, offer translations of a collection of excerpts from Takagi's commentary, with direct comparison to Owen in terms of factual agreement, selection of information, and framing; and finally, summarize and discuss the lessons about methods of representation of Tang poetry that might be learned through this comparison.
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Recommended Citation
Beliveau, Arthur James, "A Different Way to Look at Tang Poetry: Case Study of Japanese and American Anthologies" (2025). UVM Patrick Leahy Honors College Senior Theses. 703.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/703