This is a really good selection of poems - and I have found some new favourites here.
I love these little books, they give little introductions to new things and writers from a range of places and times.
I'm not usually a fan of poetry but I found this collection to be lovely. The three poets all seem to use few words to convey the beauty of nature around us.
I particularly enjoy the additional material at the end. It's actually quite a good collection covering war, politics, nature, and dance.
I understand it but the level of my understanding might just be on the surface of these magnificent writing. With poetry, you can never figure out the true intention of the poets.
A joy.
Wang Wei's poems are not only gorgeously evocative of place, they have a gentleness of presence, leaving a softness, a wistfulness of the poet, like the impression of a hare's foot in the morning dew.
A small and beautiful collection of Chinese poetry. My favorite poems were "Marble Stairs Grievance" by Li Bai on page 23, and "Night Thoughts Afloat" by Du Fu on page 51.
This is a collection of poems by three Chinese poets from the Tang Dynasty.
A lot of times poetry makes me feel so stupid but I try just to accept the fact that most poems do nothing to me.
I think I'll have to revisit these later and read them in context with secondary sources that communicate the lives and inspirations behind these poets' works.
Isn't poetry just wonderful? I'm beginning to appreciate it more and more.
The original beauty of these poems was obviously lost in translation. Unfortunately, they didn't touch me emotionally and to put it bluntly: I was bored.
Well, this was a lot of fun. I didn't expect to highlight as many verses as I did.
It's a fun reading! I enjoyed it while there were so many good views before me, i was in that moment!.
Pastoral poetry from three Tang dynasty poets; Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu, in eighth century China.
The full beauty of the poems is obviously lost in translation, but they are evocative of eighth century China with their wonderful descriptions of nature and common people feeling the desire to remain embedded in their cultures and heritage.
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