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On the Poetic Spirit, by Wang Wei, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
On the Poetic Spirit, by Wang Wei, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
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Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is a transcript of a series of lectures given by the poet Wang Wei at the China Academy of Art from 2019 to 2020.
The lecture was themed "On the Poetic Spirit" and consisted of 15 sessions. Starting from classic poetry texts from different periods such as "Little Gidding", "The Bronze Horseman", "Poetic Interpretation", "The Twelve", "Poetic Theory", and "Victory", Wang Wei deeply analyzed important topics such as "What is the mainstream", "Intersection moments", "Style issues", and "Poetry and truth" that are cutting into the present from history, and had a rich understanding of world literature and the history of thought.
“In this series of courses, we will read poems and poets directly, rather than purposefully going around to theorists and “reading” them in their retellings. We will read poems directly as not only irreplaceable aesthetic facts but also spiritual events, simply as readers, not as self-theorizing prejudicers.”
About the Author
Wang Wei, born in the 1970s, is a poet and critic. His major works include the poetry collections Poems of the Vanishing Point Era, Memorandum of Light, and Three Poetic Dramas, the collections of literary criticism The Second Prometheus and Our Ground Zero, and the play Ship.
