Poems Poems

Name: Poems Poems
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ISBN: 9780140442724

ISBN-10: 0140442723

ISBN-13: 9780140442724

Edition: 1973

Authors: Li Li Po, Tu Fu, Arthur Cooper, Li Po, Tu Fu

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Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet who is unsurpassed in the scope of his fanciful imagination and who soars to sublime heights in his descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. He has been called 'the immortal of poets'. Tu Fu is a more popular poet. His experiences of civil war imbue his work with great compassion and earthy reality, shot through with humour and desolation, as he views everyday life with an artist's insight. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty cover the whole spectrum of human life and feeling, and are often appropriately referred to as one poet, 'Li-Tu'. Arthur Cooper's excellent introduction chronicles the lives and times of Li Po…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/1973
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.83" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Pronunciation of Chinese Words and Names


Note on the Chinese Calligraphy


Introduction



'Li-Tu'



The Background to their Times



Li Po



Tu Fu



The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Beginnings: The 'Book of Odes', The Language and Script



The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Ch'u Tz'u



The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Ballads and the Principles of Chinese Syllabic Metre



A Demonstration by Ballad



The Approach to Translation in this Book



The Tones and the 'Chinese Sonnet'



Reading the Poems in English


Li Po


Tu Fu


List of Titles


Index of First Lines