诗话

詩話
shīhuà
  1. notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)
  2. a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties

CEDICT

old

Entry Composition

1 诗 shī
  1. poem
  2. poetry
  3. verse

classifier: 首
=2 话 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番
=2 话 huà old variant of 话 huà