Peter (Übers.) MacMillan

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection.Translated with an introduction and commen… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Macmillan, Peter (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-14-139594-4
EAN: 9780141395944
Produktnummer: 21629604
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 11'913 KB

Über den Autor

Peter MacMillan was born in Ireland and has lived in Japan for more than twenty years. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Princeton, Columbia and Oxford, and is currently a translator, poet and print-maker. He has translated Tales of Ise and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each for Penguin Classics.