Treasury of Chinese Love Poems

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Xiaolong Qiu
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Qiu Xiaolong is extravagantly qualified for translating these poems, having as a citizen of China won prizes for his own poetry and for translating T.S. Eliot and other English and American poets into Chinese and, more recently, as a citizen of the United States, won prizes for his own poetry and fiction in English. To my mind, the Changgan Song in this collection rivals Ezra Pound's justly famous, loosely translated version, The River Merchant's Wife. These renderings have a limpidity of the language and metaphor and a subtle rhythm, and Qiu has a poet's sixth sense for when (occasionally) to lift the line with a less direct and more evocative word; we are thus rescued from the flatness of some translations of early Chinese poetry. This is a generous book and a very welcome addition to the poetry of love and longing from our Significant Stranger, the Chinese nation. --Mona Van Duyn.

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Xiaolong Qiu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Qiu Xiaolong is extravagantly qualified for translating these poems, having as a citizen of China won prizes for his own poetry and for translating T.S. Eliot and other English and American poets into Chinese and, more recently, as a citizen of the United States, won prizes for his own poetry and fiction in English. To my mind, the Changgan Song in this collection rivals Ezra Pound's justly famous, loosely translated version, The River Merchant's Wife. These renderings have a limpidity of the language and metaphor and a subtle rhythm, and Qiu has a poet's sixth sense for when (occasionally) to lift the line with a less direct and more evocative word; we are thus rescued from the flatness of some translations of early Chinese poetry. This is a generous book and a very welcome addition to the poetry of love and longing from our Significant Stranger, the Chinese nation. --Mona Van Duyn.

A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry

A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry PDF Author: John J. Deeney
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Chinese Love Poetry

Chinese Love Poetry PDF Author: Jane Portal
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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A selection of 40 classical and contemporary love poems, illustrated with original brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints from the British Museum.

25 Classic Chinese Love Poems

25 Classic Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Eurydice Chen
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ISBN: 9781629016481
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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25 Classic Chinese poems presented in Chinese characters, English phonetic transliteration, and English interpretation all in line. Plus cultural notes on the background of each poem and an 100-word "Poem in a Nutshell" description.

Love and the Turning Year

Love and the Turning Year PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.

Chinese Love Poems

Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: D. J. Klemer
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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English translations of well-known Chinese poems.

New Songs from a Jade Terrace

New Songs from a Jade Terrace PDF Author: Anne Birrell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000583074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details.

Chinese Love Poetry

Chinese Love Poetry PDF Author: Anne Birrell
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Three Hundred Tang Poems

Three Hundred Tang Poems PDF Author: Peter Harris
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307269736
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture—a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China’s greatest poets. These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618–907)—an age in which poetry and the arts flourished—were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere. Many of China’s most famous poets—Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei—are represented by timeless poems about love, war, the delights of drinking and dancing, and the beauties of nature. There are poems about travel, about grief, about the frustrations of bureaucracy, and about the pleasures and sadness of old age. Full of wisdom and humanity that reach across the barriers of language, space, and time, these poems take us to the heart of Chinese poetry, and into the very heart and soul of a nation.

Chinese Love Poems

Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: D. J. Klemer
Publisher:
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Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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