Love and the Turning Year
Title | Love and the Turning Year PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811201797 |
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Title | One Hundred Poems from the Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1971-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0811223868 |
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.
Women Poets of China
Title | Women Poets of China PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780811208215 |
"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
One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year
Title | One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1970-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0811223922 |
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation. Love and the Turning Year includes a selection from the Yueh Fu—folk songs from the Six Dynasties Period (fourth-fifth centuries A.D.). Most of the songs are simple, erotic lyrics. Some are attributed to legendary courtesans, while others may have been sung at harvest festivals or marriage celebrations. In addition to the folk songs, Rexroth offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse: works by 60 different poets, from the third century to our own time. Rexroth always translated Chinese poetry—as he said—“solely to please myself.” And he created, with remarkable success, English versions which stand as poems in their own right.
The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Title | The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Weinberger |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811216050 |
Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.
Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind
Title | Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Weinberger |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811218368 |
"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
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
Title | One Hundred Poems from the Japanese PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811201810 |
A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.