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The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis

The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis

Mather, Richard B.

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Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5397

Biographies GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0691606269
ISBN13: 9780691606262
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 23 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.58 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title Reticient Marquis (Yin-hou) was awarded posthumously by the Liang Emperor Wu, who, though owning his own rise to power partly to Shen's bold counsel, had found him less than forthcoming from that point onward. Shen was indeed very reserved, and continually tortured by the conflicting claims of his ascetic Buddhist ideals and his love for luxury, his chameleon-like ability to preserve his influence through three regimes, and his high social and political status. Richard B. Mather provides the first full description in a Western language of Shen's life and though and supplies numerous translations of his surviving letters, memorials, poems, and essays.

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