A Little Primer of Tu Fu

by David Hawkes

Book Overview

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the "first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature." Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to a wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962996659X
• ISBN13: 9789629966591
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"