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Description:Tu Fu (712– 770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu’s best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war. Through it all, his is a wisdom that can only be called elemental, and his poems sound remarkably contemporary:Leaving the CityIt’s bone-bitter cold, and late, and fallingfrost traces my gaze all bottomless skies. Smoke trails out over distant salt mines.Snow-covered peaks slant shadows east. Armies haunt my homeland still, and wardrums throb in this far-off place. A guest overnight here in this river city, I returnagain to shrieking crows, my old friends.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton. To get started finding The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Tu Fu (712– 770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu’s best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war. Through it all, his is a wisdom that can only be called elemental, and his poems sound remarkably contemporary:Leaving the CityIt’s bone-bitter cold, and late, and fallingfrost traces my gaze all bottomless skies. Smoke trails out over distant salt mines.Snow-covered peaks slant shadows east. Armies haunt my homeland still, and wardrums throb in this far-off place. A guest overnight here in this river city, I returnagain to shrieking crows, my old friends.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton. To get started finding The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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