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Title
Three Chinese poets - translations of poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu

Author
Vikram Seth

format
Paperback

Publisher
Phoenix

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20010906

Description

The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of civil war and collapse.

These three poets of a single generation, responding differently to their common times, crystallise the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.

Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author ofA Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller,An Equal Musicand several other novels. He has also written seven volumes of poetry includingBeastly Tales and Summer Requiem.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
Chinese poetry - Tang dynasty, 618-907 - Translations into English.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
80