A Little Primer of Tu Fu

David Hawkes

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• eBook ISBN:
  9789629966591
• Year: 2016

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

Table of contents

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