Tao Yuanming (365-427) was a great pastoral

poet, whose works had a profound influence on the

subsequent development of Chinese poetry. Con-

tained in this volume is a selection of poems

translated by Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi

mostly when they were students at the University of

Oxford fifty years ago. The book is prefaced by

the late well-known scholar, Wang Yao, who

made significant contributions to the study of

classical Chinese literature.