The three T'ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu crystallize the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.

Three Chinese Poets

Literature & Fiction

VIKRAM SETH

WANG, WEI

Du, Fu

Li, Bai

United States

Harper-perennial

Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work. Du Fu wrote poems that engaged his contemporaries and widened the path of the lyric poet. As his society—one of the world’s great civilizations—slipped from a golden age into chaos, he wrote of the uncertain course of empire, the misfortunes and pleasures of his own family, the hard lives of ordinary people, the changing seasons, and the lives of creatures who shared his environment. As the poet chases chickens around the yard, observes tear streaks on his wife’s cheek, or receives a gift of some shallots from a neighbor, Young’s rendering brings Du Fu’s voice naturally and elegantly to life. I sing what comes to me in ways both old and modern my only audience right now— nearby bushes and trees elegant houses stand in an elegant row, too many if my heart turns to ashes then that’s all right with me . . . from “Meandering River”

Du Fu: A Life in Poetry

Literary

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Translated works of an eight-century Chinese poet, known for his innovations in language and structure

Selected Poems of Tu Fu

Fu, Tu

Poetry

New Directions

Tang Dynasty (AD618-907) is one of most powerful and prosperous dynasties in Chinese history, it is also a great era of cultural development, the prosperity of poems is the most distinctive feature of Tang Dynasty, it is closely associated with the government officials admission examination of the Dynasty as the skill of writing poems is a necessary subject of such examination, so the big poets, such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, etc, are also government officials, their works reflect their thoughts and feeling on official careers and real life. Due to the economic prosperity, the ordinary people also have spare time and interest in writing poems, their works are more close to real life and more natural. The poems of Tang Dynasty showcase all respects of social life of the Dynasty. By reading these poems, you will have a better understanding of the character and spirit of the Chinese. All the poems are edited in Chinese-English line by line for better understanding and reading comfort.

Selected 300 Poems of Chinese Tang Dynasty

Bai, Juyi

Zhang, JiuLing

Meng, HaoRan

Wei, YingWu

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ce volume rassemble l'intégralité des compositions poétiques attribuées au chinois Du Fu (712-770) avant l'éclatement, en 755, de la guerre civile qui opposa le gouvernement impérial des Tang au général rebelle An Lushan, mettant fin à l'âge d'or du début du VIIIe siècle: la traduction de ces 93 poèmes, constituant les trois premiers juan de l'édition de référence de 1713, est accompagnée d'un appareil critique aussi lumineux que possible pour un lecteur occidental. La plupart de ces poèmes sont inédits en français. Leur lecture donne à voir comment une voix singulière incarne mieux que tous les poètes de Cour réunis le déchirement entre l'ambition de servir et le refus de l'aliénation. Il y a dans Du Fu, dès son plus jeune âge, une maîtrise prodigieuse tant de l'héritage de ses prédécesseurs que de l'innovation poétique: il puise dans le patrimoine du Wenxuan un ensemble complexe de valeurs, qu'elles soient esthétiques dans les essais en prose rimée de Yang Xiong et de Sima Xiangru, ou mystiques dans la poésie du haut moyen-âge chinoise, avec une prédilection particulière pour les vers de Tao Qian et de Xie Lingyun; mais ce corps de références, même s'il est indispensable au lecteur moderne pour saisir la profusion des allusions et entendre l'écho de voix plus anciennes que la sienne, ne suffit pas à expliquer la puissance de son art poétique. Au fil de ces poèmes, on voit Du Fu forger des expressions et des images que nul avant lui n'avait su ou osé figurer. Comme tout poète, il sait exploiter les ressources de la langue et tordre la syntaxe pour figer l'instantanéité de sa vision; il innove en multipliant les croisements de sens, les contrastes des sentiments et les ruptures de rythme et de tonalité. Même dans les poèmes les plus innocents, les vers de circonstance, les compliments obligés, il mobilise, avec une économie de moyens et des raccourcis souvent saisissants, une verve exceptionnelle. Le tout au service d'un seul message, constamment répété mais jamais épuisé: le lettré ne doit pas se compromettre, comme l'aigle sur le gantelet [qui] s'envolera dès qu'il sera repu.

Poèmes de jeunesse (735-755): OEuvre poétique I (Bibliotheque Chinoise)

Les Belles Lettres

This book collects a hundred poems written by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu. This book takes the form of Chinese-English translation format. Its English translation version is accomplished by the world famous master Rewi Alley. Chinese work and its

Du Fu Selected Poems

Foreign Language Press

80 Ancient Classic Poetry Recited by Pupils (Chinese Edition)

Beijing Yanshan Press

The Classic of Tea is the very first monograph on tea in the world, written by Chinese writer Lu Yu between 760 CE and 780 CE (age of Tang Dynasty). According to popular legend, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county (now Tianmen county in Hubei province) who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery. He refused to take up the monastic robes and was assigned menial jobs by his stepfather. Lu Yu ran away and joined the circus as a clown. At age 14, Lu Yu was discovered by the local governor Li Qiwu who offered Lu Yu the use of his library and the opportunity to study with a teacher. During the An Lushan and Shi Siming rebellion period, Lu Yu retired to Shaoqi (now Wuxing county, Zhejiang). During this period, Lu Yu made friends with many literati, including the calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and the poet Huang Pu Zheng and wrote his magnum opus: Chá Ching.For Lu Yu, tea symbolized the harmony and mysterious unity of the Universe. "He invested the Chá Ching with the concept that dominated the religious thought of his age, whether Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian: to see in the particular an expression of the universal"

The Classic of Tea The Sequel to The Classic of Tea by Lu Yu, Lu Yanchan(Volumes 2) (Library of Chinese Classics) (Library of Chinese Classics, Volumes 2)

Lu, Yu

Lu Yanchan

Hunan People Press

Tu Fu Poems (Set all 4 volumes) (Paperback)

Guangling bookstore; version 1 (November 1. 2009)

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