One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Rexroth, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 0811201805 / ISBN 13: 9780811201803

Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0811201805I3N10

Riassunto:

The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful.Thirty-five poems by Tu Fu make up the first part of this volume. The translator then moves on to the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) to give us a number of poets of that period, much of whose work was not previously available in English. Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'iang Chao and Chu Shu Chen. There is a general introduction, biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems, and a bibliography of other translations of Chinese poetry.

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Titolo: One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Casa editrice: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Data di pubblicazione: 1971
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket