Table of Contents
Part 1 The Poetry of Ruan Ji (210-263) 1
Introduction 3
Singing My Cares 26
The Five-syllable-line Poems 26
The Four-syllable-line Poems 139
The Poetic Expositions (fu) 146
Poetic Exposition on Dongping 146
Poetic Exposition on Mount Shouyang 170
Poetic Exposition on the Cuckoos 176
Poetic Exposition on the Macaque 180
Poetic Exposition on Purifying My Longings 188
Poetic Exposition on Kangfu 206
Abbreviations 214
Additional Notes 216
Part 2 The Poetry of Xi Kang (ca. 223-262) 253
Introduction 255
Poems 266
A Pentasyllabic Poem Presented to the Cultivated Talent (also tided "Thoughts of the Ancients in Pentasyllabic Verse") 266
Poems Presented to My Elder Brother the Cultivated Talent on His Entry into the Army, Eighteen Poems 268
A Poem on My Indignation in Confinement 288
Telling of My Intent, Two Poems 298
Roaming with Immortals 302
Hexasyllabic Verse, Ten Poems 306
Recomposing Tetrasyllable Verse, Seven Poems (also titled "Imitations of the Song of Qiu Hu" or "Ballad of Qiu Hu") 312
Thinking of My Loved Ones 322
A Response to the Two Guos, Three Poems 326
A Poem to Ruan Deru 334
A Poem Composed for a Wine Drinking Gathering 338
Tetrasyllabic Verse, Eleven Poems 340
Pentasyllabic Verse, Three Poems 352
Rhapsody on the Zither 358
Additional Notes 396
Modern Editions Cited 406