Japanese Haiku Poems by Peter Washington (English) Hardcover Book

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Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible.

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Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets. The book is dominated by four great masters - Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki - who between them compress the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen syllables.

Notes

Traditional Japanese verse.

Author Biography

Editor's Biography.Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams

Details ISBN1841597554 Author Peter Washington Pages 256 Year 2003 ISBN-10 1841597554 ISBN-13 9781841597553 Format Hardcover Imprint Everyman's Library Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book Publisher Everyman Language English Edited by Peter Washington Series Everyman's Library POCKET POETS UK Release Date 2003-10-30 Publication Date 2003-10-30 AU Release Date 2003-10-30 NZ Release Date 2003-10-30 Translator Daniella Gitlin Birth 1939 Affiliation Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva Position Illustrator Qualifications PsyD Audience General Translated from Multiple languages We've got this

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