Compiled around 1763, ‘Three Hundred Tang Poems’ is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Poems in Volume Five are of the style 五 言 絕 句 ‘Five-character-quatrain’ (poems 224 to 260) and 七 言 絕 句 Seven-character-quatrain (poems 261 to 320). (Summary by David Barnes)
All poems recorded in Mandarin.
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