One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
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 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2386-7
- EAN: 9780811223867
- Produktnummer: 34247693
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1971
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 985 KB
Über den Autor
Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.
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