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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse (Penguin Classics)

by Peter MacMillan

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'How the night deepens. A ribbon of frost is stretched across the bridge of magpie wings the lovers will cross.' The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshucontains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed wakapoems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan… (more)

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895.61008Literature › Literature of other languages › Asian (east and south east) languages › Japanese › Japanese poetry › Collections

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PL758.O4Language and Literature › Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania › Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania › Japanese language and literature › Japanese literature › Collections

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