Classic Haiku
The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki and Their Followers
Tom Lowenstein(Editor)
Duncan Baird Publishers
Published on 22. October 2007
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160 pages
978-1-84483-474-7 (ISBN)
Description
The scope ranges widely over time and place, from the "Upanishads" of ancient India to the words and images of Japan's ukiyo-e - the "floating world." The introductions, providing invaluable background on history, belief, and interpretation, are provided by thinkers, writers, and artists who are renowned for communicating accessibly and imaginatively. The translations used are in a thoroughly readable modern idiom. Accompanying images are chosen for their evocative appropriateness. "Classic Haiku" contains a selection of about two hundred haiku by the four most celebrated haiku poets of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The texts presented will not be original translations, but versions arrived at through comparative use of literal and literary translations and of commentaries. The introduction offers background information about the poets in the anthology, and gives an account of the nature of haiku and its development in relation to Japanese poetic tradition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
col. Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 125 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84483-474-7 (9781844834747)
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