One Hundred Poems from the ChineseThe lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries--Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)--his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful. Thirty-five poems by Tu Fu make up the first part of this volume. The translator then moves on to the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) to give us a number of poets of that period, much of whose work was not previously available in English. Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'iang Chao and Chu Shu Chen. There is a general introduction, biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems, and a bibliography of other translations of Chinese poetry. |
Contents
Winter Dawn | 5 |
To Wei Pa a Retired Scholar | 11 |
New Moon | 17 |
A Restless Night in Camp | 23 |
MEI YAO CHEN | 37 |
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Arthur Rimbaud Autumn bamboo beauty Bernadette Mayer birds boat bowels breeze bright CH'ING CHAO China Chinese CHU HSI CHU SHU CHEN clouds Cold Food Collected Poems curtain dawn Day of Cold dead Death desert dream drunk dust Eastern Wu Emperor famous frost Fu's garden girl gold gone grass green jade grow hair heart Heaven Heinrich von Kleist hills HSIU HSU CHAO Kenneth Rexroth lake leaves LU YU MEI YAO CH'EN mirror mist moonlight mountains Muriel Spark never OU YANG HSIU painted pavilion peach trees perfume plum blossoms poets prose rain Richard Eberhart rises river roof scholar gentry Selected Poems silk sing sleep snow sorrow SPRING NIGHT Spring wind SU TUNG P'O Sung poetry T'ang tears thatched thoughts thousand miles TING YUAN translations Ts'ao TU FU TUNG P'O twilight Wang An Shih watch waves West wind blows window Yellow young