{"id":3516,"date":"2016-06-27T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2016-06-26T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T09:38:22","slug":"tranter-on-china-in-tranter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"Tranter on China in Tranter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian poet John Tranter has published an essay titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poeticsresearch.com\/article\/john-tranter-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China: The influences of Eastern poetry and calligraphy<\/a>,&#8221; in which:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A persuasive theory equates the English-language poets of the Elizabethan age (Shakespeare, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Raleigh, Campion, and others) with the Chinese-language poets of the T\u2019ang (or Tang) dynasty (618 to 907) which is often considered to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. Poets like Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Li Bai (or Li Po), and later poets like Su Shih, have in common with the Elizabethan poets and with many modern American poets that they were highly-educated and at the same time virtually unemployable. The emphasis on academic qualifications and the impossibility of attaining proper employment haunt these three eras: the Elizabethan Age, the Tang Period, and the modern American age.This means that many scholars from those three periods are highly trained in the various branches of rhetoric, yet afflicted with a world-view that is highly complex, negative, and painfully aware of the likelihood of unemployment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The picture we in the west have of Li Bai is that of cheerful mastery through excess: he wrote millions of poems, threw most of them away, drank lots of alcohol and drowned on a drunken swim, trying to catch the reflection of the moon in the water. So legend has it.<\/p>\n<p>Australians like poets who drink too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian poet John Tranter has published an essay titled &#8220;China: The influences of Eastern poetry and calligraphy,&#8221; in which: A persuasive theory equates the English-language poets of the Elizabethan age (Shakespeare, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Raleigh, Campion, and others) with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[180,1721,1719,508,1052,1724,1723,1720,1722,344,1717],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-UI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4428,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4428","url_meta":{"origin":3516,"position":0},"title":"Turner on Poets of the Late Tang Dynasty","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Matt Turner reviews The Collected Poems of Li He \u674e\u8cc0, translated by J.D. 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