The Chinese Lyric Sequence by Joseph Allen

Author:Joseph Allen [Allen, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2020-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

73. Tian Xiaofei, Tao Yuanming, 149.

74. The first century CE Han shu “Yiwen zhi” records the text in thirteen juan (30, 1774); the Sui shu “Jingji zhi” (33, 982) of the seventh century records it in twenty-three juan, with a commentary by Guo Pu (276–324); the text is now in eighteen juan. Tao Qian was most likely familiar with the text in thirteen juan. Tian Xiaofei, Tao Yuanming, 149, denies that the poetic series is at all related to the order of the Classic, but she is referring to the current ordering, not the Han version.

75. Tian Xiaofei, Tao Yuanming, 148.

76. Tao Yuanming ji, 133–134; translation, James Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 229. Permission Oxford University Press.

77. Wendy Swartz, Reading Tao Yuanming, 242.

78. Tian Xiaofei, Tao Yuanming, 95–108, quotes from 96, 107. I wrote the following analysis before reading Swartz’s summary or Tian’s detailed work. That my reading often corresponds with that provided by Tian is reassuring.

79. Tao Yuanming ji, 40–43; translation, James Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 50–56. Permission Oxford University Press. Hightower’s translation contains extensive notes and analysis, which I have drawn upon for my notes and discussion of the set.

80. The text reads “thirty years” (sanshi nian), which does not fit the biography of Tao Qian, thus Hightower reverses the numerals; other solutions have been proposed (see Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 51); Lu Qinli’s, Tao Yuanming ji, 41, recent solution is to read thirty as an exaggeration for “ten”—he offers textual evidence from the Shi ji.

81. A commonly identified allusion to Yang Yun’s biography in Han shu (66, 2896) (“I farmed the southern hill/ No one controlled the weeds/ An acre planted with beans,/ They dropped and left bare stalks.”) might also warrant an allegorical interpretation, as suggested by Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 52–53. Hightower’s translation of this Han Shu passage does leave off the concluding couplet, “In life one should pursue pleasure,/ who knows when wealth and fame might come.” which seems more in a Mr. Five Willows vein; compare Lu Qinli, Tao Yuanming ji, 42.

82. As James Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 55, argues, this line looks like an allusion to the “Fisherman” poem in The Elegies of Chu, but he admits it is problematic in its version and use here. Lu Qinli, Tao Yuanming ji, 43, lessens the probability by accepting a variant on the first character, which at least is a convenient solution.

83. James Hightower, T’ao Ch’ien, 50, but he notes some problems with that understanding (55).

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