李賀詩選

This selection gathers poems by Li He presenting vivid, sometimes nightmarish imagery that blends mythic fantasy, elegy, and landscape lyric. Short odes, yuefu-style ballads, and narrative songs range from haunted palace and river scenes to mountain solitude, mixing musical motifs, funerary meditations, and equestrian and pastoral episodes. The voice shifts between ornate, compressed diction and abrupt tonal leaps, favoring sensory detail, uncanny metaphors, and allusive references. Recurrent themes include transience, longing, and the border between mortal experience and supernatural vision, mapped across varied forms and moods that move from playful lyricism to brooding intensity.