赵翼·《论诗·其二》英译

李杜诗篇万口传，至今已觉不新鲜。

江山代有才人出，各领风骚数百年。

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On Poetry

Chao Yi

II

The poems of Li Po and Tu Fu, passed along myriad voices,

No longer seem in this modern era so fresh and new.

Every age these rivers and hills produce a genius,

Each capturing in spirit the Odes and Song¹ for scores of decades.

1. The Shih-ching and Ch’u Tz’u, the two oldest anthologies of Chinese poetry.