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The Poetry of Du Fu
Author | : Stephen Owen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 2962 |
Release | : 2015-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781501501951 |
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The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional commentaries overlook. The main body of the text is a facing page translation and critical edition of the earliest Song editions and other sources. For convenience the translations are arranged following the sequence in Qiu Zhao’an’s Du shi xiangzhu (although Qiu’s text is not followed). Basic footnotes are included when the translation needs clarification or supplement. Endnotes provide sources, textual notes, and a limited discussion of problem passages. A supplement references commonly used allusions, their sources, and where they can be found in the translation. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. The scholar may use this as a baseline to agree or disagree. Other readers can feel confident that this is a credible reading of the text within the tradition. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu, which can present problems for even the most learned reader.
Du Fu
Author | : Du Fu |
Publsiher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2008-11-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780375711602 |
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Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work. Du Fu wrote poems that engaged his contemporaries and widened the path of the lyric poet. As his society—one of the world’s great civilizations—slipped from a golden age into chaos, he wrote of the uncertain course of empire, the misfortunes and pleasures of his own family, the hard lives of ordinary people, the changing seasons, and the lives of creatures who shared his environment. As the poet chases chickens around the yard, observes tear streaks on his wife’s cheek, or receives a gift of some shallots from a neighbor, Young’s rendering brings Du Fu’s voice naturally and elegantly to life. I sing what comes to me in ways both old and modern my only audience right now— nearby bushes and trees elegant houses stand in an elegant row, too many if my heart turns to ashes then that’s all right with me . . . from “Meandering River”
A Little Primer of Tu Fu
Author | : David Hawkes |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789629968991 |
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The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to a wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’s classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese, with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and a commentary on the subject, the form, the historical background, and the individual lines. There is no other book quite like it for any language: a nuts-and-bolts account of how Chinese poems in general, and specifically the poems of one of the world’s greatest poets, are constructed. It’s an irresistible challenge for readers to invent their own translations.
Poems of Du Fu
Author | : Createspace Independent Pub,Du Du Fu |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2017-03-24 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1537485334 |
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This is a bilingual book containing the poems of Du Fu in both Mandarin and English. It is Volume II, with a selection of poems from 760-770 A.D. Ideal for language students, Asia enthusiasts or readers who just want to get closer to the original material, explore these masterpieces of poetry in two languages. Du Fu (712-770) is widely regarded as one of the greatest Eastern poets. As China's 'poet-historian, ' he brings to life the world of ancient China and the flourishing culture of the Tang Dynasty.
Selected Poems of Du Fu
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2003-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231502290 |
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Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information—which earned him the epithet "poet-historian." Some 1,400 of Du Fu's poems survive today, his fame resting on about one hundred that have been widely admired over the centuries. Preeminent translator Burton Watson has selected 127 poems, including those for which Du Fu is best remembered and lesser-known works.
Author | : Zu-yan Chen |
Publsiher | : Cheng & Tsui |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0887276024 |
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Returning to a Chinese tradition that locates poetry at the heart of education, "Li Bai & Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature" offers an innovative approach to studying the writings of China's most revered classical poets. Twenty-six poems of Li and Du in the original, classical Chinese are accompanied by a short essay of analysis and appreciation in contemporary Chinese, to encourage students to assimilate the subtleties of both contemporary and classical Chinese language. Also available are biographical and historical background in both Chinese and English, exercises in translation and comprehension, and indexed vocabulary.
Du Fu an Homage To
Author | : Jean Elizabeth Ward |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2008-03-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781435714328 |
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Du Fu, Chinese Poet, with Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward paying an Homage to with her responses to his poetry. A dozen illustrations by the poet are within this charming book, first in a series, with her paying an homage to Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li He, or Ho, Po Chu-I, Tang: An Homage to, and perhaps a few others; NOT A TRANSLATION, but poems inspired by, or paying an homage to by an American Woman Poet. One chapter dedicated to the exquisite translations of Florence Wheelock Ayscough McNair.