The Penguin Book Of Japanese Verse

Author : Geoffrey Bownas
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140585278
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse written by Geoffrey Bownas and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prefatory section on Japanese prosody provides an illustrative background for this poetic collection

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395257
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Haiku written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running three lines long in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.

Author : Anthony Thwaite
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141931892
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse written by Anthony Thwaite and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014139594X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 commentary by Peter MacMillan.

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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore William Goossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192803727
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories written by Theodore William Goossen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101664886
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Haikus written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223868
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Poems from the Chinese written by Kenneth Rexroth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971-01-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Harry Guest
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-war Japanese Poetry written by Harry Guest and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: