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Rh chüan, with his own comments on the poets and their methods. These comments were brought together and printed separately in 1819 under the title, 靜志居詩話 Ching-chih-chü shih-hua, in 24 chüan. In his last days Chu I-tsun was often a guest of Governor at Soochow, and was later engaged by  to compile a history of the salt administration of the Yangchow region—a work that was never printed. Ts'ao Yin undertook to print Chu's collected prose and verse which the latter had edited in 80 chüan under the title, P'u-shu-t'ing chi (集). But Chu died in 1709, and Ts'ao in 1712, leaving the printing to be carried on by the author's grandsons, Chu Kuei-sun 朱桂孫 (original name 朱桐孫 T. 楫師 H. 巖客, b.1672) and Chu Tao-sun 朱稻孫, who completed it in 1714. These grandsons added 10 chüan of poems by their father, the above-mentioned Chu K'un-t'ien, under the title 笛漁小稿 Ti-yü hsiao kao. The poems of Chu I-tsun were later annotated by a fellow townsman, Yang Ch'ien 楊謙, who also compiled his nien-p'u 年譜. Other annotated editions of these poems appeared: one in 12 chüan by Chiang Hao-jan 江浩然, dated 1762, another in 23 chüan by Sun Yin-ch'a 孫銀槎 in 1800. The prose and verse works of Chu I-tsun that were not printed in the P'u-shu-t'ing chi were brought together in 8 chüan by and Chu Mo-lin 朱墨林 (the latter a descendant of the author) and printed in 1817 under the title, P'u-shu-t'ing chi wai kao (外稿).

Famous in the historical and archaeological field, Chu I-tsun is also remembered as a poet. He was perhaps the only one of the early Ch'ing poets who can be regarded as rivalling. A contemporary critic,, commenting on their poetry, remarked that "Wang strove for quality, Chu for quantity" (朱貪多王愛好). Possibly he was alluding to a long poem of 2,000 characters, entitled 風懷詩二百韻 Fêng huai shih êr-pai yün, which Chu wrote in 1669. This poem—a wu-yen ku-shih 五言古詩, "in ancient style with five characters to the line"—was written in memory of a younger sister of his wife whom he ardently loved and who had died two years previously. By means of this poem Chu intended to make her known and remembered, and included this and other poems about her in his collected works against the advice of his friends. The poem is virtually a complete account of his romance—a straight-forward revelation of his passion. An exposition of the poem, giving an account of the whole background, was written by Yao Ta-jung 姚大榮 and printed in the 東方雜誌 Tung-fang tsa-chih (1925, vol. 22, no. 13). A novel about the romance, entitled 鴛水仙緣 Yüan-shui hsien yüan, is reported to have been written, but it was never printed and is probably lost.

As a writer of tz'ŭ (a form of verse popular in the early Ch'ing period), Chu I-tsun was considered one of the best. The tz'ŭ which he himself edited for his collected works, were annotated by in 1814. An original manuscript of Chu's tz'ŭ was in the possession of Yeh Tê-hui 葉德輝, who in 1903 selected and printed the unpublished ones in 1 chüan, under the title P'u-shu-t'ing shan yü tz'ŭ (删餘詞), together with the original table-of-contents and Yeh's collation notes. A supplementary collection, entitled P'u-shu-t'ing tz'ŭ shih-i (拾遺) 2 chüan, was edited by Wêng Chih-jun 翁之潤 and printed in 1896. Chu compiled an anthology of tz'ŭ written by T'ang, Sung, Chin, and Yüan poets, entitled 詞綜 Tz'ŭ-tsung, in 26 chüan, which was printed in 1678. This work was several times supplemented: (1) by Wang Sên 汪森, who brought the total, first to 30 chüan and later to 36 chüan; (2) by , who added two more chüan; and (3) by T'ao Liang 陶樑 who in 1834 printed a supplement, Tz'ŭ-tsung pu-i (補遺), in 20 chüan.

Chu I-tsun began to build up his private library about 1658, after his return from Canton. But about four years later it was consigned to the flames by his family for fear of implication in the literary inquisition of. By 1699 he again accumulated a collection of 80,000 chüan. No catalogue of it is extant, but a list of the books he took with him when traveling, and three lists of reference works he consulted in compiling the Jih-hsia chiu-wên, the Ching-i k'ao, and the unpublished work on salt administration were brought together under the title 潛采堂書目 Ch'ien-ts'ai t'ang shu-mu and printed in the 晨風閣叢書 Chên-fêng-ko ts'ung-shu of 1909. When the Ssŭ-k'u ch'üan-shu was initiated in 1773 (see under and ), Chu's descendants presented 65 works from the family library.

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