Basho and His Interpreters

Basho and His Interpreters PDF Author: Makoto Ueda
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804725262
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Book Description
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.