Selected Poems

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Author: Tu Fu

ISBN-10: 0811211002

ISBN-13: 9780811211000

Category: Chinese Poetry

Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton, “the first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.”\ This edition of The Selected Poems of Tu Fu is the only comprehensive selection of the poet's work currently available in English....

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\ Gary Snyder“Tu Fu said ‘A poet's ideas are noble and simple.’ But Tu Fu does not seem so simple to us. His richly-layered work is well represented in these crisp translations. The background notes are invaluable. One of the world's finest poets is made available here.”\ \