The late Tang: Chinese poetry of the mid-ninth century (827-860)

Introduction: Latecomers

Setting the stage

The old men

Regulated verse in the short line

The craftsmen of poetry

The legacy of Li He

Regulated verse in the "Long Line": the meditation on the past

Poets of the long line

Du Mu

Daoism: the case of Cao Tang

Li Shangyin: Preliminaries

Li Shangyin: The hermetic poems

Li Shangyin: The history poems

Li Shangyin: "Poems on things"

Li Shangyin: The poems on occasion

Wen Tingyun.