作者簡介
Burton Watson is the foremost English language translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature. Among his many books are individual translated volumes of the poets Tu Fu, Su Tung-p’o, Han Shan, Lu Yu, Po Chu-yi, Gensei, and Ryōkan; the philosophers Chuang Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu; the historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien; and Buddhist texts such as The Lotus Sutra and The Vimalakirti Sutra. He is the editor and translator of The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry and, with Hiroaki Sato, of a prolific anthology of Japanese poetry, From the Country of Eight Islands. He received the Gold Medal Award presented by the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979 and the PEN Translation Prize twice, in 1981 and 1995. He lives in Japan.

Lucas Klein’s translations include Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems by Xi Chuan, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association. He lives in Hong Kong.

• Preface by Lucas Klein(第ix頁)
• Introduction(第1頁)
• Translator’s Note(第23頁)
• Sung Yü The Wind(第25頁)
• Chia Yi The Owl(第29頁)
Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju Sir Fantasy(第34頁)
Wang Ts’an Climbing the Tower(第62頁)
Ts’ao Chih The Goddess of the Lo(第66頁)
Hsiang Hsiu Recalling Old Times(第74頁)
P’an Yüeh The Idle Life(第77頁)
Mu Hua The Sea(第86頁)
Sun Ch’o Wandering on Mount T’ien-t’ai(第96頁)
Hsieh Hui-lien The Snow(第104頁)
Pao Chao Desolate City(第111頁)
Chiang Yen Partings(第116頁)
Yü Hsin A Small Garden(第123頁)
Appendix I. Early Critical Statements on the Fu Form(第133頁)
Appendix II. Two Fu of Hsün Ch’ing(第146頁)
Selected Bibliography(第150頁)