Three Hundred Tang Poems

The original Qing Dynasty version of the 300 Tang Poems was organized by the poem's formal type, of which there were seven: • Folk song-styled verse (yuefu) • Ancient verse (gushi): • Five-character ancient verse • Seven-character ancient verse • Modern-style verse (jintishi): • Eight-line regulated verse (lüshi): • Five-character regular verse • Seven-character regular verse • Quatrain (jueju): • Five-character quatrain • Seven-character quatrain Out of 317 poems in one edition, 90 were in the gushi form and 227 were in the lüshi or the jueju forms. ==Poets==

The poets of the Tang shi include a number of authors ranging from the well-known and famous to obscure or anonymous poets, and even include at least one emperor. The poet with the most pieces included in this collection is Du Fu, with thirty-nine. Li Bai is a close runner-up, with thirty-four. Wang Wei has twenty-nine poems included in the anthology and Li Shangyin has twenty-four. Meng Haoran has fifteen, Wei Yingwu twelve, Liu Zhangqing eleven, and Du Mu ten. After that, each of the other poets' included pieces number in the single digits; however, some of these poets are quite important, such as Liu Zongyuan or Bai Juyi. Some important poets, such as Li He, are not represented at all. ==Translations==

The first complete translation of the Three Hundred Tang Poems into English was published as The Jade Mountain, translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu. From 1929 through 1972 it went through ten editions. ==See also==