NGUYEN CONG TRU’S THOUGHTS IN YONGSHI POETRY THEMES

• Main Author: Nguyễn Cảnh Chương
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dalat University 2017-12-01
• Series: Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt
• Subjects: nguyễn công trứ; tư tưởng; đề tài vịnh sử; ảnh hưởng.
• Online Access: http://tckh.dlu.edu.vn/index.php/tckhdhdl/article/view/386

Nguyen Cong Tru (1778 - 1858) was brilliant both as a poet and a great personality of Vietnam in the early nineteenth century. His social status, career and especially the complexity and diversity in his thoughts about literature are the origin of contradictory critics and evaluation, which are still a concern to the contemporary academic community and to all those who are interested in those thoughts. Based on the analysis and comparative methods, this article is an attempt to discover Nguyen Cong Tru’s thoughts in yongshi poetry themes.