About this title: Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr
Date Published: 1986-01-01
ISBN-13:9780140442724ISBN:0140442723
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780140442724ISBN:0140442723
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Description: Very Good. 8vo. 249pp. Selection of poems of Li Po and Tu Fu, the two great Chinese poets of the T'ang Dynasty; translated with an introduction and notes by Arthur Cooper, and with Chinese calligraphy by Shui Chien-tung. read more
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Description: Very Good. 0140442723 Cover has light surface wear and one spine line from reading, yellowed leaf ends, pages are clean, tight and bright! Overall in Great Condition! read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics, England
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780140442724ISBN:0140442723
Description: b&w Calligraphy By Shui Chien-Tung. Very Good- Used. Mass Market Sized. Clean, tight, unmarked, browned from age, spotting to edges and interior pages that face and back the covers. 249 pages with index of first lines. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780140442724ISBN:0140442723
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"I got a crash course in Chinese literature and poetry by reading Cao Xueqin "Story of the Stone". I was introduced to a variety of Chinese poets, operas, philosophy, and religious texts by way of reference when various characters in that novel discussed literature or were creating their own poetry. I was amazed at how many references there were to the Tang dynasty, a veritable Chinese golden age. This book is a nice primer on Tang dynasty poetry in general and these two poets specifically. I have to admit I was most taken with the author's inclusion of a poem written in 1956 by Chairman Mao Zedong called "Farewell to the God of Plagues" written to celebrate the annihilation of a certain waterborne parasite formally found in the Yangtze river. I wonder if Nixon wrote any good poetry?"
"It would be pointless describing or reviewing any poem of Li Po or Tu Fu ! They're simply perfect in their simplicity ... You must read them to know what i mean ."
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