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A little primer of Tu Fu [electronic resource] / by David Hawkes

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Hawkes, David
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections. English & Chinese
Published
New York : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press/NYRB, New York Review Books, [2016]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Description
xii, 269 pages ; 22 cm.
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Summary
"The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the "first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature." He merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to the wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has often been translated, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes' classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese, with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and a commentary on the subject, the form, the historical background, and the individual lines. There is no other book quite like it for any language: a nuts-and-bolts account of how Chinese poems in general, and specifically the poems of one of the world's greatest poets, are constructed. It's an irresistible challenge for readers to invent their own translations"--
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ISBN
9789629966591 (paperback)
9789629968991 (ebook)
Note
Includes index.
Includes poems in Chinese with transliterations into English.
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