The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse - Couverture souple

 
9780140587890: The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

Synopsis

From the third century to the present, this collection offers some of the most beautiful Japanese verse, with folk songs and lullabies alongside traditional tanka and haiku verse, as well as the 'modern style' poems with their sharper, satirical flavour.

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À propos de l?auteur

After leaving Oxford and studying at Kyoto University, Geoffrey Bownas set up the Dept. of Japanese Studies at Oxford University in 1954. He has written and broadcast on Japan since the early 1960s. He lives in London.

Anthony Thwaite taught English literature at Tokyo University. He was literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman and was co-editor of Encounter. He was awarded an OBE for services to poetry in 1990. He lives in Norfolk.

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