Haiku

WASHINGTON, Peter (editor&selector)

ISBN 10: 1841597554 / ISBN 13: 9781841597553

Published by U.K / Everyman's Library Pocket Poets - Alfred A. Knopf, 2003

About this Item

Once confined to the literary elite in Japan. Haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth. The book is dominated by 4 great masters, Basho, Buson, Issa & Shiki. / This is a 'British' 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in near to fine condition-the top edges of the dustjacket is a little creased. (256 pages). Reprinted front a 4 volume set in 1952.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Haiku
• Publisher: U.K / Everyman's Library Pocket Poets - Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841597554
• ISBN 13: 9781841597553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY
  • CLASSIC LITERATURE

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Synopsis

Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets. The book is dominated by four great masters – Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki – who between them compress the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen syllables.

About the Author

Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams