Selected Poems of Du Fu

Informationen zum Autor Burton Watson is one of the most respected translators of Chinese and Japanese literature. He has translated Chinese and Japanese classics such as Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings! Ryo¯kan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan! and The Lotus Sutra. Klappentext Du Fu (712--777) has been called China's greatest poet! and some call him the greatest nonepic! nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms! showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial! from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information -- which earned him the epithet "poet-historian." Some 1!400 of Du Fu's poems survive today! his fame resting on about one hundred that have been widely admired over the centuries. Preeminent translator Burton Watson has selected 127 poems! including those for which Du Fu is best remembered and lesser-known works. Zusammenfassung The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter! from personal detail to historical fact! expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial! and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works. Inhaltsverzeichnis ChronologyIntroductionPoems

Product details

• Authors: Fu Du, Du Fu, Burton Watson
• Assisted by: Burton Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2003
• EAN: 9780231128285
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12828-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets