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Title: One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Condition: New
Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0811201805
EAN: 9780811201803
ISBN: 9780811201803
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 01/02/1971
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 132mm
Item Width: 10mm
Item Weight: 170g
Release Year: 1971
Description: 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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