The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.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
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Books)
โ Scribed by Rexroth, Kenneth
- Publisher
- New Directions Pub
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811223868
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Includes poems from the T'and Dynasty and the Sung Dynasty, with biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation._Love and the Turning Year_ includes a selection from the _Yueh Fu_ --folk songs from the Six Dynasties Period (fourth-fifth centuries A.D.). Most of the songs are simple, erotic lyrics. Some
"Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills."--_American Poetry Review_ _Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flower
This collection of classical poetry was selected from the Man'yoshuthe oldest and most important collection of Japanese poetry.Despair and hope are two emotions commonly voiced by poets in the Man'yoshu. Although written over thirteen hundred years ago, the poems retain a rare freshness, an original