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Kate Lingley 龍梅若@klingley.bsky.social |
Josquin and Shen Zhou were rough contemporaries (Shen was about a generation older). The Chinese chronology helps me keep European history in sequence, but on consideration I think there are lessons from the other direction, too, specifically lessons from poetry:
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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the earthiness and bawdiness of medieval and Renaissance composer-poets taught me not to mistake archaic language for formality. Resisting the same error in reading Chinese poetry often has the same rewards, revealing works which are much wittier, funnier, and deeply humane.
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