The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan write by Meng Hao-Jan. This book was released on 2012-08-01. The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.
The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan write by Meng Hao-Jan. This book was released on 2004-01-05. The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.
The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan
The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan write by James Whipple Miller. This book was released on 1972. The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Classical Chinese Poetry
Classical Chinese Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Chinese Poetry write by David Hinton. This book was released on 2014-06-10. Classical Chinese Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China write by David Hinton. This book was released on 2005-05-17. Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. Mountain Home collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The "rivers-and-mountains" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.
