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.

25 Classic Chinese Love Poems

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

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Book Description
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.

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Xiaolong Qiu
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ISBN:
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.

25 Classic Chinese Love Poems

25 Classic Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Eurydice Chen
Publisher: Sterlingreed Books
ISBN: 9781735092706
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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In this book we invite you into the immense and alluring world of Chinese love poetry. Hundreds of love poems from almost every era of Chinese history still exist; we have decided to present twenty-five of them to you, complete with fresh translations and line-by-line analysis. Among these twenty-five poems are some of the most beloved poems in Chinese history; others are probably familiar to few people. Our special interest is in poems that describe the full range of the experience of love, from wooing the beloved, to missing out on a hopeful connection; to the problem of distance and absence in a relationship and, finally, to losing a beloved partner much too early. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

Chinese Love Poetry

Chinese Love Poetry PDF Author: Jane Portal
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
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.

Chinese Love Poems

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

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English translations of well-known Chinese poems.

Poems of the Late T'ang

Poems of the Late T'ang PDF Author:
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590172575
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable anthology of late T’ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the work of six other masters, including the “cold poet” Meng Chiao, who wrote of retreat from civilization to the remoteness of the high mountains; the troubled and haunting Li Ho, who, as Graham writes, cultivated a “wholly personal imagery of ghosts, blood, dying animals, weeping statues, whirlwinds, the will-o'-the-wisp”; and the shimmeringly strange poems of illicit love and Taoist initiation of the enigmatic Li Shang-yin. Offering the largest selection of these poets’ work available in English in a translation that is a classic in its own right, Poems of the Late T’ang also includes Graham’s searching essay “The Translation of Chinese Poetry” as well as helpful notes on each of the poets and on many of the individual poems.

Chinese Love Poetry

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

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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.

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 Poems

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

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