CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY AN ANTHOLOGY

HINTON, DAVID ed, trans.;.includes; CH'U.;.T'AO CH'IEN; HSIEH LING-YUN; WANG WEI; FU FU; LI PO.;.PO CHU-I.;.YANG WAN-LI.others

ISBN 10: 0374531900 / ISBN 13: 9780374531904

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 2008

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VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright.bit spine sticker residue ; Green titles on glossy white paper covers, showing photo of large house on jagged mountain. ; 475pg pages; The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. .an entire world of beauty and insight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY AN ANTHOLOGY
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374531900
• ISBN 13: 9780374531904
• Binding: paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Several Maps
• Edition: FIRST EDITION,6p THUS; 109876pt line.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE-1200 CE), the period during which virtually all of its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to recreate each one as a fully realized and unique voice. From the classic, deeply poetic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on the natural world, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary.Without ever reaching for anachronistic effects or colloquialisms, Hinton presents a literary tradition both radically new and entirely resonant.

About the Author

David Hinton's translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned him a Guggenheim fellowship, numerous NEA and NEH fellowships, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, from the PEN American Center. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the four seminal works of Chinese philosophy: the "Tao Te Ching," "Chuang Tzu," "Analects," and "Mencius." He lives in Vermont.