The Vitality of the Lyric Voice: Shih Poetry from the Late Han to the t'AngThis volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of