Little Primer of Du Fu, Poems 6-10

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This is week 2/7 on David Hawkes' Little Primer of Du Fu. I'll replicate the poems themselves here, but this book contains considerable exegesis, so I do advise you to grab this copy.

This week we're reading poems 6 through 10, inclusive.

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context's Chapter 15, "Du Fu: The Poet as Historian", is relevant to Hawkes' focus. (Next week's Additional Readings are more focused on poetics.)

Comments

Re: 6. 春望 Chūn wàng

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Baike glosses the 'three months' as month 1-3 (of the lunar calendar), which is definitely not how I'd read it.

And this is one of the longest 'famous review' sections for one of these poems yet.