Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Grahamâ€™s slim but indispensable anthology of late Tâ€™ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the work of six other masters, including the â€œcold poetâ€ Meng Chiao, who wrote of retreat from civilization to the remoteness of the high mountains; the troubled and haunting Li Ho, who, as Graham writes, cultivated a â€œwholly personal imagery of ghosts, blood, dying animals, weeping statues, whirlwinds, the will-o'-the-wispâ€; and the shimmeringly strange poems of illicit love and Taoist initiation of the enigmatic Li Shang-yin. Offering the largest selection of these poetsâ€™ work available in English in a translation that is a classic in its own right, Poems of the Late Tâ€™ang also includes Grahamâ€™s searching essay â€œThe Translation of Chinese Poetryâ€ as well as helpful notes on each of the poets and on many of the individual poems.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 46564
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2008-01-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172575

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	46564
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2008-01-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590172575

Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

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