Haiku (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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Book
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ISBN 10
1400041287
ISBN 13
9781400041282
Category
830-899 Other Literature
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Haiku -- Translations into English. Haiku.
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Abstract
Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible.
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Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those who are fascinated by its combination of technical challenge, expressive means, and extreme concentration. This anthology brings together hundreds of haiku by the Japanese masters-Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki-with superb examples from nineteenth and twentieth-century writers. The pioneering translator R.H. Blyth believed that the spirit of haiku is present in all great poetry; inspired by him, the editor of this volume has included lines from such poets as Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Thoreau, and Hopkins, presented here in haiku form. Following them are haiku and haiku-influenced poems of the twentieth-century from Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" to William Carlos Williams's "Prelude to Winter," and from the irreverence of Jack Kerouac to the lyricism of Richard Wright. The result is a collection as compact, dynamic, and scintillating as the form itself.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Bok
Poesi
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Washington
ISBN: 1400041287 9781400041282
OCLC Number: 938518119
Description: 256 s. ; 17 cm.
Series Title: Everyman's library pocket poets.
Responsibility: selected and edited by Peter Washington.
Poesi
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Washington
ISBN: 1400041287 9781400041282
OCLC Number: 938518119
Description: 256 s. ; 17 cm.
Series Title: Everyman's library pocket poets.
Responsibility: selected and edited by Peter Washington.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1846 |
895.610 WAS Oth.Lit. |
1 | Yes |