《人间词话》英译（十）

太白纯以气象胜。“西风残照，汉家凌阙。”寥寥八字，遂关千古登临之口。后世唯范文正之《渔家傲》，夏英公之《喜迁莺》，差足继武，然气象已不逮矣。<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Li Po was a master of imagery (ch’i-hsiang).

West wind, evening glow

On tombs of Han.

These eight lonely, desolate words have closed the lips of travelers forever after. In later generations only Fan Chung-ye’s tz’u to the tune of ‘Yu Chia ao’ and Hsia Sung’s tz’u to the tune of ‘His ch’ien ying’ followed to a certain extent in the master’s footsteps, but their imagery could not come up to his.