The Poet Li Po

Author : Bai Li
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811213234

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The Selected Poems of Li Po by Bai Li Pdf

There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.

Author : Kidder Smith,Mike Zhai
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781953035424

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Li Bo Unkempt by Kidder Smith,Mike Zhai Pdf

Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524747428

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The Banished Immortal by Ha Jin Pdf

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai's verses are still taught to China's schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet's life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet's later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China's history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.

Author : Li Po,Tu Fu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141915258

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Poems by Li Po,Tu Fu Pdf

Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty complement each other so well that they often came to be spoken of as one - 'Li-Tu' - who covers the whole spectrum of human life, experience and feeling.

Author : Arthur Waley,Bai Li
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547023975

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The Poet Li Po, A.D. 701-762 by Arthur Waley,Bai Li Pdf

The Poet Li Po A.D. 701-762 is a series of poems by Li Po translated into English. Li Po is revered as the most beloved Chinese poet throughout history, known for his ephemeral metaphysical style of writing.

Author : Li Po
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780834827783

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Bright Moon, White Clouds by Li Po Pdf

Li Po (701-762) is considered one of the greatest poets to live during the Tang dynasty—what was considered to be the golden age for Chinese poetry. He was also the first Chinese poet to become well known in the West, and he greatly influenced many American poets during the twentieth century. Calling himself the "God of Wine" and known to his patrons as a "fallen immortal," Li Po wrote with eloquence, vividness, and often playfulness, as he extols the joys of nature, wine, and the life of a wandering recluse. Li Po had a strong social conscience, and he struggled against the hard times of his age. He was inspired by the newly blossoming Zen Buddhism and merged it with the Taoism that he had studied all his life. Though Li Po's love of wine is legendary, the translator, J. P. Seaton, includes poems on a wide range of topics—friendship and love, political criticism, poems written to curry patronage, poems of the spirit—to offer a new interpretation of this giant of Chinese poetry. Seaton offers us a poet who learned hard lessons from a life lived hard and offered his readers these lessons as vivid, lively poetry—as relevant today as it was during the Tang dynasty. Over one thousand poems have been attributed to Li Po, many of them unpublished. This new collection includes poems not available in any other editions.

Author : Bai Li,Po Li,Shigeyoshi Obata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106001627949

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The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet by Bai Li,Po Li,Shigeyoshi Obata Pdf

Author : Bai Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132870077

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Facing the Moon by Bai Li Pdf

Poetry. A lovely bilingual edition of the 8th century Chinese poets Li Bai and Du Fu, translated by Keith Holyoak with calligraphy by Hung-hsiang Chou. "Holyoak's clarity carries the profundity and complexity of the Chinese culture not dissimilar to our own. 'The wine keeps flowing; the moon keeps watch'"--London Magazine. "Keith Holyoak has succeeded in producing translations of Chinese poetry that achieve high literary excellence while conveying a real sense of the musicality of the originals"--Johanthan Chaves.

Author : Arthur David Waley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547087687

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The Poet Li Po by Arthur David Waley Pdf

Li Po was a Chinese poet of the first century AD. He is generally regarded as China's greatest poet - much like Shakespeare in Britain. This book contains the text of a paper presented to the China Society at the School of Oriental Studies. It is a scholarly paper, mostly comparing LI Po with Tu Fu- a contemporary of LI Po.

Author : Paula M. Varsano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 082482573X

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Tracking the Banished Immortal by Paula M. Varsano Pdf

In this lucidly and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception."

Author : Arthur Waley
Publisher : London : G. Allen and Unwin ; New York : Macmillan Company
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106005803132

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The Poetry and Career of Li Po by Arthur Waley Pdf

Author : David Hinton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466873223

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Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton Pdf

With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, 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 to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all 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 re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.

Author : Ezra Pound,Bai Li
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547022299

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Cathay by Ezra Pound,Bai Li Pdf

Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.

Author : Arthur Waley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000483949

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The Poetry and Career of Li Po by Arthur Waley Pdf

When this was originally published in 1950 this was the fullest biography of one of China’s greatest poets that had ever appeared in any language. It tells the story of the poet’s life against the background of contemporary history and, in doing so, gives a brilliant picture of Chinese life in the eighth century A.D. – during a period of the Tang Dynasty, fertile in great poets, such as Wang Wei, Tu Fu and Mêng Haojan.

Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060950242

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Three Chinese Poets by Vikram Seth Pdf

The three T'ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu crystallize the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.