Mountain Home - The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China

Informationen zum Autor David Hinton's many translations of ancient Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling English poetry that conveys the texture and density of the originals. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1997 he received the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Klappentext China's tradition of rivers-and-mountains poetry is the earliest and literary engagement with the idea of wilderness. This title treats a range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travelogue, reclusive sages, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. Zusammenfassung China's tradition of rivers-and-mountains poetry is the earliest and literary engagement with the idea of wilderness. This title treats a range of topics: comic domestic scenes! social protest! travelogue! reclusive sages! and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Li Po, Li Po Tu Fu Wang Wei, Qian Tao, Tu Fu, Wang Wei
• Assisted by: David Hinton (Translation)
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9780856463952
• ISBN: 978-0-85646-395-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures