The Hokku or Epigram Verses of Basho [Paperback]

Basho (Author), Charles F. Horne (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (December 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1425328997
• ISBN-13: 978-1425328993
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Print on demand title of an old essay, March 24, 2007

By 

thetwonky (Northridge, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hokku or Epigram Verses of Basho (Paperback)

Please note: this is simply a Print-On-Demand issue of Prof. Chamberlain's essay "Basho, The Chief Poet of Japan, and the Hokku, or Epigram Verses". This publishing house also uses the former part of the title in a second publication of the same essay, so do not be confused or waste your money on the same text. It is nice to have this essay available separate from the original volume it had appeared, Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Vol. 13 Japan, edited by Charles F. Horne, first published in 1917. However, Chamberlain's translations are loose and only serve as an academic curiosity as all of the poems within have been translated umpteen times since, and by more skilled scholars of the genre. The poems' adjacent texts offer little or no insight to Basho's thoughts or offer criticism of the verse.