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The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series) - Softcover
From the third century to the present, this collection offers some of the most beautiful Japanese verse, with folk songs and lullabies alongside traditional tanka and haiku verse, as well as the 'modern style' poems with their sharper, satirical flavour.
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After leaving Oxford and studying at Kyoto University, Geoffrey Bownas set up the Dept. of Japanese Studies at Oxford University in 1954. He has written and broadcast on Japan since the early 1960s. He lives in London.
Anthony Thwaite taught English literature at Tokyo University. He was literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman and was co-editor of Encounter. He was awarded an OBE for services to poetry in 1990. He lives in Norfolk.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140587896
- ISBN 13 9780140587890
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages352
- EditorBownas Geoffrey, Thwaite Anthony
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series)
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