Consisting of 18 articles, Muse of the Left Hand is Yu Guangzhong’s first prose collection. It contains the author's comments on poems and paintings, as well as lyrical works. By reading it, readers can have a fresh take on masters such as William Butler Yeats, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. Written in 1952, the famous piece Tiger and Rose is the earliest prose in this book, and is selected into the Chinese textbook multiple times for several generations to learn, making huge impact.