{"title":"Three Poems","authors":"Yang Mu","doi":"10.1515/9780824883287-080","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Translator’s Note The speaker in this poem was Qu Yuan (343–278 b.c.e.), the first identifiable poet in China. A nobleman of the kingdom of Chu in the lake country south of the Yangzi River, Qu was slandered by fellow courtiers and banished to the southern hinterlands by the inconstant king, whom he calls the Fair One in this poem. The king of Huai was the father of the Fair One. Qu later drowned himself in the River Milo.—m.y.","PeriodicalId":377314,"journal":{"name":"Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824883287-080","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Translator’s Note The speaker in this poem was Qu Yuan (343–278 b.c.e.), the first identifiable poet in China. A nobleman of the kingdom of Chu in the lake country south of the Yangzi River, Qu was slandered by fellow courtiers and banished to the southern hinterlands by the inconstant king, whom he calls the Fair One in this poem. The king of Huai was the father of the Fair One. Qu later drowned himself in the River Milo.—m.y.