With an introduction by Robert E Hegel, professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Washington University. This is the first translation of classic Chinese poems intended for contemporary English-speaking readers. This new approach makes the sometimes difficult format of classic Chinese poetry accessible to newcomers to the genre. It offers 74 poems by authors such as Li Bai, Guan Daoshen, Zhang Jiuling, and Li Shangyin.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese
Original Language: Chinese
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poetry without borders,
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This review is from: Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (Hippocrene Treasury of Love) (Hardcover)
The authenticity and sensitivity with which all poems in this collection are rendered is quite obvious to a bilingual reader like me. Majority of the poems selected here have long been translated into English, mostly by academics whose emphases tend to be on the literal truthfulness to the text and the Chinese poetic tradition, but, inevitably, at the expense of the ?poetic quality? of the oeuvres. This book diverges from that path and is primarily concerned with the sensibilities and textures of the poems. They are rendered as poetry first and then as Chinese poetry with its distinct conventions. Unlike its predecessors that serve well the scholarly concerns about Chinese poetics as contrasted to or compared with the Western one, this album, put together principally for everyday poetry lovers, strives for the commonality of poetry across diverse traditions. It opens doors for untutored readers to the beauty and delicacy in Chinese poetry, which, under different translation treatments, may have appeared to be too foreign and stiff. For those inspired ones who contemplate further ventures, Robert Hegel?s introduction is an excellent guide to further exploration of the history and conventions that are unique to Chinese poetry.
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Lovely Chinese Poetry,
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This review is from: Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (Hippocrene Treasury of Love) (Hardcover)
Anyone who loves China will enjoy the poetry included in this small volume. The sketches are lovely and the author has included the original Chinese version as well as a delightful English version. Also included is the author and the time period it was written.
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Marvellous Poems,
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This review is from: Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (Hippocrene Treasury of Love) (Hardcover)
I do not know Chinese but these poems are well selected across centuries, and the translations are as readable as the best (Ezra Pound's) I have seen.
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