Xu Zhimo: Selected Poems With Xi Xi

With Xi Xi

Edited by Alice W

from the Zhou (11th century BC) to the Qing dynasties

he examines the questions of guilt

these works focus attention on the important question of man's—and the artist's—precarious fate in the world of today

Xu Zhimo: Selected Poems With Xi XiBy Xu ZhimoEdited by Mary M. Y. FungTranslated by Mary M. Y. Fung and David Lunde2017126 pagesISBN 962 7255 45 1 Xu Zhimo (18971931) was the best known poet of the early period of the New Poetry in China, not only for his beautiful, melodious poetry but also his tempestuous love affairs and tragic death. He championed English Romanticism and the cultivation of the Romantic self. His introducing poems by Thomas Hardy, Keats, and Shelley and their