This six volume work is the first complete translation of the poetry of Du Fu, the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition. The entirety of Du Fu’s works provides a more nuanced portrait of the author than the standard selections. It gives testimony to the great rebellion of 755, but also poems on building a chicken coop and repairing bamboo plumbing. In the whole we discover ho...(展开全部)

For centuries, Chinese critics have acclaimed Du Fu (712–770) as “China’s greatest poet.” He has exerted tremendous influence both as a model poet and as a cultural icon. In The Reception of Du Fu (712-770) and His Poetry in Imperial China, Ji Hao provides modern readers with a general picture of the reception of Du Fu and his work from the Song to the Qing. He also explores ma...(展开全部)

This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu’s poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various con...(展开全部)

Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe," a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with spec...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems b...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems b...(展开全部)

宇文所安，又名斯蒂芬・欧文。1946年生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市，长于美国南方小城。1959年移居巴尔的摩。在巴尔的摩公立图书馆里沉湎于诗歌阅读，并初次接触中国诗；虽然只是中文翻译，但他迅速决定与其发生恋爱，至今犹然。1972年获耶鲁大学东亚系博士学位，随即执教耶鲁大学。二十年后应聘哈佛，任教东亚系、比较文学系，现为詹姆斯・布莱恩特・柯南德特级教授。有著作数种，论文多篇。其人也，性乐烟酒，心好诗歌。简脱不持仪形，喜俳谐。自言其父尝忧其业中国诗无以谋生，而后竟得自立，实属侥幸尔。

宇文所安，又名斯蒂芬・欧文。1946年生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市，长于美国南方小城。1959年移居巴尔的摩。在巴尔的摩公立图书馆里沉湎于诗歌阅读，并初次接触中国诗；虽然只是中文翻译，但他迅速决定与其发生恋爱，至今犹然。1972年获耶鲁大学东亚系博士学位，随即执教耶鲁大学。二十年后应聘哈佛，任教东亚系、比较文学系，现为詹姆斯・布莱恩特・柯南德特级教授。有著作数种，论文多篇。其人也，性乐烟酒，心好诗歌。简脱不持仪形，喜俳谐。自言其父尝忧其业中国诗无以谋生，而后竟得自立，实属侥幸尔。

A paperback original, Bloom's stand–alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry––a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of ...(展开全部)

Review Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book. (Frank Kermode New York Times Book Review ) Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of...(展开全部)