·唐诗300首 Regret.The seventh consists of 20 frontier or war poems,for war usually broke out on the frontier,for instance,Wang Changling's On the Frontier.The eighth consists of 20 political and satirical poems,such as Du Fu's Song of the Conscript.The ninth deals with personality and character,such as Wang Zhihuan's On the Stork Tower.The last category deals with the poets'reflections and recollections on life,such as Li Bai's Hard is the Way of the World. As Robert Payne says in The White Poeny,"We can understand a people best through their poctry,and the Chinese who have written poetry since the beginning of time always regarded poetry as the finest flower of their culture."And Lytton Strachey says of Giles's translation of Chinese poetry,"the poetry in it is the best that this generation has know,"it "holds a unique place in the literature of the world.Its pages,for all their strange antiquity, are fresh to us,their humanity keeps them immortal."What is their humanity?I think it may refer to the Tang poets'love of nature as shown in the first and second categories of this book,their love of the country and people in the third and fourth categories,love of beauty in the fifth,of heroes in the sixth,of peace in the seventh,of freedom in the eighth, of honor in the ninth and of life in the last.These are what keeps Tang poetry immortal.So the publication of this anthology will help the world to achieve a better understanding of China.As Confucius says,it is good to understand,better to enjoy and best to delight.If the understanding will bring enjoyment and delight,then "what more felicity,as says Spencer,can fall to creature