The New Directions Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poetry

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215404
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216050
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.

Author : David Hinton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224422
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China written by David Hinton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. Mountain Home collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The "rivers-and-mountains" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811208215
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Poets of China written by Kenneth Rexroth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poetry proves again that stereotypes mislead. Chinese verse is supposedly cool and distant, detached and dispassionate. The opposite seems true; poets are exalted or downcast, drunk with wine or, in the case of women, frankly sensuous....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." --America

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201551
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius to Cummings written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a hundred poets are represented, a number of them in Pound's translations, with emphasis on the Greek, Latin, Chinese, Troubadour, Renaissance, and Elizabethan poets.

Author : David Hinton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466873221
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Poetry written by David Hinton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cathay written by Ezra Pound and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224058
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. —Ch’ien Ch’i This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth’s English versions—a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226212
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223868
Total Pages : 164 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 164 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.