The Selected Poems Of Li Po

Author : Bai Li
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Li Po
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Li Po,Tu Fu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Juyi Bai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811214125

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The Selected Poems of Po Chü-I by Juyi Bai Pdf

Po Chu-i (772-846 C.E.) is the quintessential Chinese poet. For although clear thought and depth of wisdom inform the work of all major Chinese poets (as opposed to the complexity and virtuosity often valued in the West), Po makes clarity itself his particular vision.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231502290

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Selected Poems of Du Fu by Anonim Pdf

Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information—which earned him the epithet "poet-historian." Some 1,400 of Du Fu's poems survive today, his fame resting on about one hundred that have been widely admired over the centuries. Preeminent translator Burton Watson has selected 127 poems, including those for which Du Fu is best remembered and lesser-known works.

Author : Bai Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Wei Wang
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811216187

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The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wei Wang Pdf

David Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Selected Poems of Wang Wei.

Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Bai Li,Li Po,J. P. Seaton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1590307461

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Bright Moon, White Clouds by Bai Li,Li Po,J. P. Seaton Pdf

A volume of definitive works attributed to the Tang dynasty master includes poems previously unpublished in English and offers insight into his strong social conscience, reclusive life and influence by Taoism and a nascent Zen Buddhism. Original.

Author : Fu Du
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811211002

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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Fu Du Pdf

For over a millennium, Chinese literati have almost unanimously considered Tu Fu (712-770 A.D.) to be their greatest poet.

Author : Wei Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000350868

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Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ho by Wei Wang Pdf

Author : Shi Su
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002528404

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Selected Poems of Su Tung-pʻo by Shi Su Pdf

Gathers poems about travel, nature, daily life, friendship, and exile by the eleventh-century Chinese poet, who wrote under the name Su Tung-p'o.

Author : Fu Du
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : OCLC:63129851

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Tu Fu by Fu Du Pdf

Author : 維·王
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0874515645

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Laughing Lost in the Mountains by 維·王 Pdf

Fine contemporary translations of one of the great poets of the T'ang dynasty.

Author : Du Fu
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375711602

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Du Fu by Du Fu Pdf

Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work. Du Fu wrote poems that engaged his contemporaries and widened the path of the lyric poet. As his society—one of the world’s great civilizations—slipped from a golden age into chaos, he wrote of the uncertain course of empire, the misfortunes and pleasures of his own family, the hard lives of ordinary people, the changing seasons, and the lives of creatures who shared his environment. As the poet chases chickens around the yard, observes tear streaks on his wife’s cheek, or receives a gift of some shallots from a neighbor, Young’s rendering brings Du Fu’s voice naturally and elegantly to life. I sing what comes to me in ways both old and modern my only audience right now— nearby bushes and trees elegant houses stand in an elegant row, too many if my heart turns to ashes then that’s all right with me . . . from “Meandering River”