Abstract

in Zhong Hong's 1 (466-518) Shi pin ?. [Gradings of Poets], the person who initiated the literary movement in tonal prosody during the Yongming 7<71 H reign (483-93) of the Qi * dynasty (479-502).1 Although the movement led to Recent Style Poetry L1r a, a new poetic genre that came into maturity in the Tang * (618-907) and continued to be popular throughout the rest of dynastic China, it has been widely criticized in both traditional and modern studies.2 Restrained by perspectives that are strongly influenced by the common understanding of Tang tonal prosody, many of these studies fail to recognize the complexity and value in the prosodic theories proposed by the Yongming poets. Accepting the prevailing belief that there were great discrepancies between their theories and actual writings, these studies also sought to understand their prosodic invention only at a conceptual level and rarely ventured into the works themselves. Focusing on Shen Yue &nJ (441-513)

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