Textual Research On Editions Of Zheng Gu's Poetry Anthology

Zheng Gu, an eminent poet, lived in the late Tang Dynasty. His poetical works are comprehensible and generally welcomed. However, the comments concerning how his poetry were compiled and how they spreaded, are incomplete. This thesis will reveal the true relations among Zheng Gu's poetry anthology editions by emending all his anthology editions and his poems scattered in other florilegiums and referring to bibliothecas and other material. This thesis consists of three chapters: introduction,body and conclusion. There is an appendix of the system graph.Introduction Chapter illustrates the topic and theme.Body Chapter individualizes all the editions in order of time.â… . The compilation of Zheng Gu's poetry in the Tang Dynasty and Five-dai Period. This section says that Zheng Gu himself once compiled Yun-tai Anthology which included many of his poems. Someone compiled Yi-yang Anthology which included his left poems. As time went on, some poems in each of the two anthologies were lost. So they were compiled together and entitled Yun-tai Anthology.â…¡. The publication of Zheng Gu's poetry anthology in the Song Dynasty. This section details Shu Edition and infers that there must had been two other editions and that there had been some other editions probably.â…¢. The printing and transcribing of Zheng Gu's poetry anthology in the Ming Dynasty. This section formulates Zheng Gu's anthology editions one by one.(1)Eighteen Poets'Anthology Edition. (2)Hongzhi Edition. (3)Wang Ao's Transcript.(4) Yan Song's Edition. It is descended from Wang Ao's Transcript and it has some more poems than Wang Ao's .(5)Zhu Zhi-fan's Edition. It is descended from Yan Song's Edition but it cancels the division of volumes.(6)Li Zhi-zhen's Edition.It is the only five-volumed edition in existence(7)Transcript with He Zhuo's epilogue.It gathers Shu Edition of Song Dynasty and Yan Song's Edition.(8)Tang-yin-tong-qian Edition.It is the most...