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| Author | : Geoffrey Bownas |
| Publisher | : Puffin |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780140585278 |
A prefatory section on Japanese prosody provides an illustrative background for this poetic collection
| Author | : Adam L. Kern |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 2018-05-31 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141395257 |
'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running three lines long in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.
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| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2018-05-31 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 014139594X |
A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.
| Author | : Theodore William Goossen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0192803727 |
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
| Author | : Anthony Thwaite |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2009-09-03 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141931892 |
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.
| Author | : Kenneth Rexroth |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780811201803 |
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.
| Author | : Jonathan Wordsworth |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 1048 |
| Release | : 2005-05-26 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141905654 |
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.
| Author | : Matsuo Basho |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 1985-08-29 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141907770 |
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.
| Author | : George Steiner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : |
This is the first book of its kind. It contains some two hundred and fifty poems by the major English and American poets from Swinburne and Hopkins to Robert Lowell; each poem is a translation of imitation of a work in a foreign tongue. Twenty-two languages are represented in this glittering collection. They range from Hebrew and classical Greek to modern Chinese, from Polish to Korean. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald are included--each a master in his own right, but seen here as the re-creator of another poet's voice. George Steiner believes that ours is the most beautiful period of poetic translation since the Elizabethans. Here is his evidence.--Cover
| Author | : Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2013-04-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1101664886 |
A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his “American” haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.
