Wang Wei

Award-winning poet-translator David Hinton continues his series of selections from the great Chinese poets with Wang Wei (706-761 AD). Wang Wei was a master of the short, imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry.

The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

Wei Wang

A selection of definitive works by the acclaimed eighth-century Chinese writer offers insight into his mastery of the short imagistic landscape poem, his assiduous practice of Zen Buddhism, and ability to convey philosophical and sensory concepts in a style that has remained accessible to subsequent generations. Original.