The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries--Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)--his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are...
One Hundred Poems From The Chinese is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by the renowned poet and translator, Kenneth Rexroth. The book features a hundred poems from various dynasties, including the Tang, Song, and Yuan, written by famous Chinese...
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.