Going to the Pine: Four Essays on Bashō

by Geoffrey M Wilkinson

This collection of essays considers the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644-94) from four different and, in some respects, unconventional perspectives. It begins by likening Bashō and John Keats as travellers, open to all experience and convinced that they must 'annihilate self' to achieve true poetry. The second essay looks at how perceptions of Bashō's famous 'frog' haiku have changed over time, and the contentious issue of how far...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916062202
• ISBN13: 9781916062207
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Geoffrey M. Wilkinson
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"