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)

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: 'I, too, dislike it,' wrote Marianne Moore.' Many more people agree they hate poetry,' Ben Lerner writes,'than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable i...(展开全部)

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

艾略特．溫伯格 作家、翻譯家、編輯，被《紐約時報》譽為「世界偉大的隨筆家之一」。 溫伯格的文學隨筆集包括An Elemental Thing、The Ghosts of Birds、Angels & Saints 等。他對中國古典詩歌興趣濃厚，著有《觀看王維的十九種方式》，編寫The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry，並擔任Calligrams: Writings from and on China書系的主編。他將北島的詩作引介至英語世界，並翻譯大量拉丁美洲詩歌和散文，包括墨西哥諾貝爾文學獎得主帕斯（Octavio Paz）與智利詩人維多夫羅（Vicente Huidobro）的詩作，以及阿根廷作家波赫士（Jorge Luis Borges）的文集。其作品被譯為三十多種語言。 ...(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)