二十四詩品
The Twenty-Four Categories of Poetry
Sikong Tu (attributed) 司空圖（傳） · 837 – 908
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Twenty-four short poems in four-character lines, each evoking a mood of poetry, the vigorous, the limpid, the desolate, the natural, through images rather than definitions. Whether Sikong Tu wrote them is now doubted. Read as poems about poetry they are subtle and lovely, and they taught later readers to describe style by its atmosphere.