A Little Primer of Tu Fu
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A Little Primer of Tu Fu

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A Little Primer of Tu Fu

About this book

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." He 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 the wry lament over his own thinning hair.Although Tu Fu has often been translated, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes' 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."Tu Fu is … the greatest non-epic, non-dramatic poet who has survived in any language."-Kenneth Rexroth

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Full Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Wàng yuè
  8. 2 Bing-che xíng
  9. 3 Lì-rén xíng
  10. 4 Yuè-yè
  11. 5 Ai wáng-s n
  12. 6 Chun wàng
  13. 7 Ai ji ng-tóu
  14. 8 Chun sù zuo-sheng
  15. 9 Zhì-dé èr-zai Fu zì Jing Ji n-guang-mén chu
  16. 10 Zèng Wèi B ch -shì
  17. 11 Yuè-yè yì shè-dì
  18. 12 Jia-rén
  19. 13 Mèng Li Bái (1)
  20. 14 Mèng Li Bái (2)
  21. 15 Tian-mò huái Li Bái
  22. 16 Shu xiàng
  23. 17 Kè zhì
  24. 18 Fèng-jì yì chóng sòng Yán gong sì yùn
  25. 19 Wén guan-jun shou Hé-nán Hé-bei
  26. 20 Bié Fáng-tài-wèi mù
  27. 21 Deng lóu
  28. 22 Sù fu
  29. 23 Dan-qing yin Zèng Cáo jiang-jun Bà
  30. 24 Wéi Feng lù-shì zhái guan Cáo jiang-jun huà ma-tú
  31. 25 Gu bai xíng
  32. 26 Jì Hán Jiàn-yì Zhù
  33. 27 Yong huái gu-jì (1)
  34. 28 Yong huái gu-jì (2)
  35. 29 Gé yè
  36. 30 Ba zhèn tú
  37. 31 Guan Gong-sun dà-niáng dì-zi wu jiàn-qì xíng
  38. 32 Lu yè sh huái
  39. 33 Deng gao
  40. 34 Deng Yue-yáng lóu
  41. 35 Jiang-nán féng Li Gui-nián
  42. Vocabulary
  43. Index