Bai Li

Keith Holyoak's translations achieve high level of literary excellency while conveying a real sense of the originals, by favorite 8th century poets Li Bai and Du Fu. Original Chinese calligraphy is on opposite pages.

Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu

Facing the Moon

Bo Li

Po Li

Gathers poems written by the eighth-century Chinese poet, and briefly discusses his life and influence on Asian poetry

The Selected Poems of Li Po

Ezra Pound

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Cathay

Eres Tan Bella Como Una Flor, Pero Las Nubes Nos

Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.

Shigeyoshi Obata

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Done Into English Verse by Shigeyoshi Obata, with an Introd. and Biographical and Critical Matter Translated from the Chinese

The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet

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The Works of Li-Po, the Chinese Poet; Done Into English Verse by Shigeyoshi Obata, with an Introduction and Biographical and Critical Matter Translated from the Chinese

Li Po

David Hinton

Li Po (A.D., 701-762) lived in T’ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem not so much spiritual influences as the inborn form of his life. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T’ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.

The Selected Poems

Li Taibai shi wen

Visions of Li T'ai-po

Banished Immortal

Vikram Seth

Wei Wang

Fu Du

Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu

Three Chinese Poets

Tu Fu

Arthur R. V. Cooper

Du Fu

Offers translations of poems by the two Chinese writers.

Li Po and Tu Fu

Der Band schliesst die Edition der vollstandigen Ubersetzung des poetischen Werkes dieses bedeutendsten chinesischen Dichters ab. Der Ubersetzer, Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872-1942), hatte seine Arbeiten in mehreren Zeitschriften, teils in Indonesien, erscheinen lassen mussen, weshalb sie bis heute wenig genutzt werden, obwohl es keine integrale Ubersetzung der Werke des Dichters in eine andere europaische Sprache gibt. Der Band enthalt zusatzlich einige von Zach wegen vorliegenden anderen Ubertragungen ausgelassene Gedichte in der Ubersetzung von Alfred Hoffmann (1911-1997). Ausserdem ist eine Liste der chinesischen Gedichtanfange mit Fundstellennachweis beigefugt. Ein Anhang bietet biographische Materialien und Dokumente zu E. von Zach sowie die Wiedergabe von Zachs Korrespondenz mit Alfred Hoffmann. Zachs Ubertragung erfolgte in Prosa, in die er notwendige Erlauterungen einarbeitete. Ihm war das Wesentliche das richtige Verstandnis der Gedichte, und in zahlreichen Rezensionen hat er immer wieder schonungslos die vielen Fehler und Missverstandnisse von Sinologen und Nachdichtern aufgedeckt, die oft mehr die Form als den Inhalt und Gehalt beachteten. Damit liegt nun das komplette poetische Werk Li T'ai-pos in handlicher Form mit Registern und Fundstellennachweis vor.

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