Poems
Poems
$35.51
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1982
Summary
Arthur Cooper’s translations are accompanied by an introduction in which he discusses the lives and times of Li Po and Tu Fu, and the spiritual, social and aesthetic background to their poems.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442723 |
| Author: | Li Po, Tu Fu, Arthur Cooper |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1982 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Li Po
Li Po (AD 701–62) was born in the far west of China and probably had some knowledge of Central Asian languages and cultures. But to his contemporaries his talent was almost supernatural, so that he hardly seemed of earthly origin at all; his verses seemed to originate in something other than the human consciousness, yet speak directly and simply to the human mind.
Tu Fu (AD 712–70) was born near the capital, of a family distinguished for service to the state. While Li Po seems to the Chinese to be a poet of the night and of man as a solitary animal in his dreams, Tu Fu is rather a poet of the day and of man in his other nature as a social animal. Tu Fu’s poems chronicle his life and times with social conscience and compassion, but also present a convincing, unselfconscious portrait of the man himself.
Arthur Cooper was a scholar and translator known for the translation of Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated.
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