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Author Liu, Zongyuan, 773-819, author.
柳宗元, 773-819, author.

Title Written in exile : the poetry of Liu Tsung-Yuan / translated by Red Pine.

Publication Info. Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "After a failed push for political reform, the T'ang era's greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, was exiled to the southern reaches of China. Thousands of miles from home and freed from the strictures of court bureaucracy, he turned his gaze inward and chronicled his estrangement in poems. Liu's fame as a prose writer, however, overshadowed his accomplishment as a poet. Three hundred years after Liu died, the poet Su Tung-p'o ranked him as one of the greatest poets of the T'ang, along with Tu Fu, Li Pai, and Wei Ying-wu. And yet Liu is unknown in the West, with fewer than a dozen poems published in English translation. The renowned translator Red Pine discovered Liu's poetry during his travels throughout China and was compelled to translate 140 of the 146 poems attributed to Liu. As Red Pine writes, 'I was captivated by the man and by how he came to write what he did.' Appended with thoroughly researched notes, an in-depth introduction, and the Chinese originals, Written in Exile presents the long-overdue introduction of a legendary T'ang poet"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Poems in English and Chinese from the Chinese, notes and Introduction in English.
Subject Liu, Zongyuan, 773-819 -- Translations into English.
Liu, Zongyuan, 773-819.
Chinese poetry -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- Translations into English.
Chronological Term 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Translations.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Added Author Red Pine, 1943- translator.
Added Title Poems. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019055787
Other Form: Print version: Liu, Zongyuan, 773-819. Poems. Selections. English. Written in exile. Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2019] 9781556595622 (DLC) 2019013658 (OCoLC)1098233863
ISBN 9781619322073 (electronic book)
1619322072 (electronic book)
9781556595622
155659562X