The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140585273 ISBN 13 : 9780140585278

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

A collection of Japanese verse taken from the third century to the present day, covering folk songs, lullabies, traditional tanka, haiku verse, and modern satirical poems.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor Geoffrey Bownas was born in 1923; he read Greats and CHinese at Oxford and in 1952-4 studied with Professor Kaizuka Shigeki in Kyoto University. He established Oxford's Department of Japanese Studies in 1954, then became Sheffield University's Founding Professor of Japanese Studies in 1966, pioneering the combination of the study of Japanese with social sciences. His publications include Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices, New Writing in Japan with Mishima Yukio, Doing Business with the Japanese with David Powers and Christopher Hood and Japanese Journeys, Writings and Recolllections of a half century of direct involvement with Japan.Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. After leaving Oxford in 1955 he went to Tokyo University where he taught English Literature until 1957. He has frequently revisited Japan, holding a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1985-6, taking up a travelling scholarship in 1989, and going to Japan on various lectures and tours over the years, most recently in 2005. He has taught in Universities in Britain, the U.S.A., Libya and elsewhere. He has published seventeen books of poems, most recently Collected Poems (2007), holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Hull and East Anglia, and was awarded an OBE for services to poetry in 1990.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140585273
• ISBN 13: 9780140585278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Thwaite Anthony, Bownas Geoffrey
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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