Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Brief Chronology of the Life of He Zhu -- INTRODUCTION -- The Approach: Genre, Contexts, and Individual Voice -- Conventions and Texts Used in this Study -- The Name of the Poet -- Other Transcriptions -- Meter -- Poem Numbers and Texts -- Chapter One THE ANCIENT-STYLE VERSE OF HE ZHU, 1078-98 -- 1078-80: Fuyang -- 1078: The Contingency of Historical Judgment -- 1079: Reportage -- 1080: Time -- 1080: Animals and the Question of Allegory -- 1080: Variations on the Poetic Heritage -- 1081: A Transitional Year -- 1082-85: Xuzhou -- 1082: Tang Echoes, Su Shi -- 1083: More Celebration of Su Shi -- 1084: ~Zai, Tang Predecessors -- 1085: The Ironic Traveler -- 1086: In the Capital -- Word Games -- Imitations -- 1088: Fanghui's Version of the Zhang Liang Saga -- 1088-89: The South -- Gardens and Temples -- Ten Historical Sites in Liyang -- 1091-93: Jinshan and the Capital -- Teasing Mi Fu at Jinshan -- 1091: Wit in the Su Shi Mode -- 1093: The Past Recovered -- 1094: No-Mind in Hailing -- 1096: Hanyang -- The Inscription For Zhou Dunyi's Thatched Hall -- The Reinterpretation of Tao Yuanming -- Obfuscation -- 1096-98: Jiangxia -- 1096: The Connoisseur -- 1096 and 1097: History -- 1098: Watchful Eyes -- Further Thoughts on Imitation, Inscriptions, and Rhyme -- Chapter Two THE SONGS OF HE ZHU, 1080-98 -- 1080-85: Handan and Xuzhou -- 1080: An Ancient Site in Handan -- 1084-85: Sites and Poetry Sessions in Xuzhou -- 1088-92: Sending Songs from Liyang and Jinling -- 1088: A Suite Experiment -- Liyang Experiments in 1089 and 1090 -- 1090-92: Innovative Songs from Jinling -- A Gift Enhanced by Rhyme (I) -- 1094: Hailing -- Laments -- First Farewell Songs -- 1096-98: Jiangxia -- Tao Yuanming Outdone -- Leftover Elder of Mirror Lake -- Tao Yuanming Out of Reach -- History -- A Gift Enhanced by Rhyme (II).

East Slope -- Innovations in Songs: A Brief Review -- Chapter Three THE PENTAMETRICAL REGULATED VERSE OF HE ZHU, 1076-98 -- Poems Written before Xuzhou -- Xuzhou -- 1084: Imitation of an Extended Regulated Verse -- 1084: Twin Views from the Delightful! Pavilion -- Rhymed Opening Couplets -- 1087: In the Capital -- 1088-90: The Liyang and Jinling Area -- The Capital -- 1091: Civil Classification -- 1092: Stretching Form -- 1093-94: Leaving the Capital -- Mi Fu -- 1096-98: On to Jiangxia -- Going Upriver: Diction from the Past -- Hanyang: Responses to Assaults on History -- 1096-97: This is not Li Shangyin -- 1098: Farewell to a Buddhist Magistrate -- Pleasures and Precedents in Regulated Verse -- Chapter Four THE HEPTAMETRICAL REGULATED VERSE OF HE ZHU, 1075-98 -- Issues of Form -- Situations in Which the Heptametrical Regulated Verse was Used -- Heptametrical Regulated Verse in the North, before Xuzhou -- 1075: First-line Rhyme -- 1077, 1079: Order in Landscape, Order in Couplets -- 1082-86: Xuzhou -- Celebration of Place and Complexity -- Precedents to be Overturned or Celebrated -- Anomalous Form -- 1086: Yongcheng -- Playing with the Rhythm of the Line -- The Capital -- Zhao Lingzhi, Zhao Lingshuai -- 1088-91: Through Jinling to Liyang and Back -- Wang Anshi -- "First Poems" -- ABAB Sequences -- 1090-91: Absence in Jinling -- 1091: Two Clever Social Poems in the Capital -- 1093-94: Hailing Ambiguities -- 1095-96: From the Capital to Jiangxia -- Another Exile -- 1096: Up the Yangzi -- 1096-98: Hanyang and Jiangxia -- An Extended Regulated Verse -- Equanimity in Jiangxia -- Qin Guan, Lü Dafang, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian -- A Summary -- Chapter Five THE PENTAMETRICAL QUATRAINS OF HE ZHU, 1085-98 -- 1085: Xuzhou -- The Capital -- 1086: Relationships with Past Poetry -- 1087: Ten Songs on Autumn Days -- 1088-90: Liyang and Quatrains for Monks.

1091-92: Outspoken in the Capital -- 1095: Quirky in the Capital -- 1097-98: Mining the Past in Jiangxia -- Addendum: Hexametrical Quatrains in the Capital, 1086 and 1092 -- New Life for the Pentametrical Quatrain -- Chapter Six THE HEPTAMETRICAL QUATRAINS OF HE ZHU, 1077-95 -- Early Start in the North -- 1077: Quiet Scenes in Zhaozhou -- 1080: Restraint in Fuyang -- 1081: Making It Fresh -- 1081: Disingenuous Quatrains in the Daming Area -- 1081 and 1082: In and Out of the Capital -- 1083 and 1085: Xuzhou -- 1086-87 The Capital -- Liyang -- 1088-89: Southern Scenes -- 1089-91: The Society of Others -- The Capital and Hailing -- 1091 and 1092: Spring Wind in the Capital -- 1094: Farewells in Hailing -- 1096: Up the River to Jiangxia -- 1096-98: Hanyang and Jiangxia -- Closing thoughts on This Genre and the Lyric -- CONCLUSION -- Chronology of Poems Translated or Mentioned -- Bibliography -- Four-Corner Index of Poems Translated -- Index of Poems by Poem Number -- Index.