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Cover Half-Title Title Contents Map Introduction BEGINNINGS (5th Century C.E.)

T’AO CH’IEN (365–427)

After Mulberry-Bramble Liu’s Poem Home Again Among Fields and Gardens After Kuo Chu-pu’s Poems In Reply to Mulberry-Bramble Liu Turning Seasons Drinking Wine Wandering at Oblique Creek An Idle 9/9 at Home Cha Festival Day Written One Morning in the 5th Moon, After Tai Chu-pu’s Poem Untitled

HSIEH LING-YÜN (385–433)

On a Tower Beside the Lake Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia I’ve Put in Gardens South of the Fields, Opened up a Stream … Dwelling in the Mountains On Stone-Gate Mountain’s Highest Peak Overnight at Stone-Gate Cliffs Following Axe-Bamboo Stream, I Cross Over a Ridge … On Thatch-Hut Mountain In Hsin-an, Setting Out from the River’s Mouth at T’ung-lu

T’ANG DYNASTY (618–907)

MENG HAO-JAN (689–740)

Gathering Firewood Sent to Ch’ao, the Palace Reviser Autumn Begins Stopping In Yüeh, I Linger Out Farewell … Overnight at Cypress-Peak Monastery … Anchored Off Hsün-yang in Evening Light … Anchored Overnight on the Thatch-Hut River … On a Journey to Thought-Essence Monastery … Climbing Deer-Gate Mountain, Thoughts of Ancient Times Returning Home to Deer-Gate Mountain at Night Looking for the Recluse Chang Tzu-jung on White-Crane Cliff Visiting the Hermitage of Ch’an Monk Jung Looking for Mei, Master of Way At Lumen-Empty Monastery, Visiting the Hermitage … Climbing South-View Mountain’s Highest Peak

WANG WEI (701–761)

Mourning Meng Hao-jan In Reply to P’ei Ti Wheel-Rim River Sequence In the Mountains, Sent to Ch’an Brothers and Sisters In Reply to Su, Who Visited My Wheel-Rim River Hermitage … Mourning Yin Yao Bird-Cry Creek Adrift on the Lake On Returning to Wheel-Rim River In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang

LI PO (701–762)

Wandering Up Ample-Gauze Creek on a Spring Day Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall On Yellow-Crane Tower, Farewell to Meng Hao-jan … At Golden-Ridge Mountain Dialogue Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon On Peace-Anew Tower Watching a White Falcon Set Loose Night Thoughts at East-Forest Monastery … Spur of the Moment Reverence-Pavilion Mountain, Sitting Alone Autumn River Songs Listening to a Monk’s Ch’in Depths 9/9, out drinking on Dragon Mountain At Hsieh T’iao’s House Inscribed on a Wall at Summit-Top Temple Clear Creek Chant Looking for Yung, the Recluse Master Thoughts in Night Quiet

TU FU (712–770)

Gazing at the Sacred Peak Inscribed on the Wall at Chang’s Recluse Home The New Moon Leaving the City Brimmed Whole Skies Clear at Dusk Reflections in Autumn Night at the Tower Morning Rain The Musk Deer Thatch House 8th Moon, 17th Night: Facing the Moon Dawn Landscape In Reply to a Letter from Meng … Autumn Pastoral Facing Night Night Opposite a Post-Station, the Boat Moonlit Beside a Monastery

WEI YING-WU (c. 737–792)

Climbing Above Mind-Jewel Monastery,… Fringes of Mist, a Bell Autumn Night, Sent to Ch’iu Tan Outside My Office, Wandering in Moonlight In the Depths of West Mountain, Visiting the Master At West Creek in Ch’u-chou Evening View Sent to a Master of Way in the Utter-Peak Mountains At Truth-Expanse Monastery, in the Dharma Master’s … Entering the Carnelian Mountains Together At Cloud-Wisdom Monastery, in the Ch’an Master’s Courtyard

COLD MOUNTAIN (HAN SHAN) (C. 7TH–9TH CENTURIES)

[Untitled Poems]

MENG CHIAO (751–814)

Laments of the Gorges Autumn Thoughts

LIU TSUNG-YÜAN (773–819)

Getting Up Past Midnight and Gazing … Aimless Wandering: First Ascent, West Mountain River Snow Returning to Compass-Line Cliff’s Waterfall, I Stay … Before Crossing the Ridges An Old Fisherman In Reply to Chia P’eng of the Mountains … Gazing at Mountains with Ch’an Monk Primal-Expanse:…

PO CHÜ-I (772–846)

Hsiang-yang Travels: Thinking of Meng Hao-jan Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away Ch’in Song in Clear Night Village Night Inscribed on a Wall at Jade-Spring Monastery My Thatch Hut Newly Built Below Incense-Burner Peak,… My Thatched Mountain Hut Just Finished, CAV-Sited … In the Mountains, Asking the Moon Enjoying Pine and Bamboo Li the Mountain Recluse Stays the Night on Our Boat Off-Hand Chant The West Wind After Quiet Joys at South Garden, Sent By P’ei Tu Waves Sifting Sand The North Window: Bamboo and Rock Climbing Mountains in Dream

CHIA TAO (779–843)

Sent to a Master of Silence on White-Tower Mountain Looking for a Recluse I Can’t Find Evening Landscape, Clearing Snow A Sick Cicada Mourning Meng Chiao South Lake Early Autumn, Sent to be Inscribed on the Wall at… For Li Chin-chou Sitting at Night

TU MU (803–853)

Egrets Anchored on Ch’in-huai River The Han River A Mountain Walk Unsent Spring South of the Yangtze Inscribed on Recluse Yüan’s Lofty Pavilion Pond in a Bowl Climbing Joy-Abroad Plateau A Clear Stream in Ch’ih-chou

SUNG DYNASTY (96–1279)

MEI YAO-CH’EN (1002–1060)

East River 8th Moon, 9th Sun: Getting Up in the Morning, I Go Out … On a Farewell Journey for Shih-hou, … Farmers Lunar Eclipse

WANG AN-SHIH (1021–1086)

Wandering on Bushel Mountain Middle years Above the Yangtze Following thoughts Inscribed on Master Lake-Shadow’s Wall Events at Bushel Mountain Leaving the City Dusk Returns at Bushel Mountain: Gone to Visit … Sun west and low In bamboo forest

SU TUNG-P’O (1037–1101)

12th Moon, 14th Sun: A Light Snow Fell Overnight, … 6th Moon, 27th Sun: Sipping Wine at Lake-View Tower At Brahma-Heaven Monastery … At Seven-Mile Rapids Sipping Wine at the Lake: Skies Start Clearing, Then Rain Visiting Beckons-Away Monastery There’s a Small Monastery on the Cragged Heights … With Mao and Fang, Visiting Bright-Insight Monastery After Li Szu-hsün’s Painting, Cragged Islands on the Yangtze Midsummer Festival, Wandering Up as Far as the Monastery With the Wang Brothers and My Son Mai, I Wander … At Red Cliffs, Thinking of Ancient Times Partridge Sky Presented to Abbot Perpetua All-Gathering … Inscribed on a Wall at Thatch-Hut Mountain’s … Inscribed on a Painting in Wang Ting-kuo’s Collection … Crossing the Mountains

LU YU (1125–1210)

The River Village A Mountain Walk Following the Trail Up from Deva-King Monastery … Off-Hand Poem at My East Window 7th Moon, 29th Sun, Yi Year of the Ox … To My Son, Yü Light Rain On a Boat

FAN CH’ENG-TA (1126–1193)

Midstream at Thorn-Bramble Island, I Turn to Look Back … Four Seasons Among Fields and Gardens

YANG WAN-LI (1127–1206)

With Chün Yü and Chi Yung, I Hike to … A Cold Fly Cold Sparrows Breakfast at Noonday-Ascension Mountain On a Boat Crossing Hsieh Lake Night Rain at Luster Gap Overnight at East Island Crossing Open-Anew Lake At Hsieh Cove The Small Pond On the Summit Above Tranquil-Joy Temple

Notes Key Terms: An Outline of Wilderness Thought in Ancient China Finding List Selected Reading Acknowledgments Other Titles Copyright