The poems of two of China’s most influential classical poets: Tu Fu, called “China’s Shakespeare” (BBC), and Li Po, the subject of Ha Jin’s The Banished Immortal and “China’s most beloved poet” (The New Yorker) A Penguin Classic Li Po (AD 701–62) and Tu Fu (AD 712–70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty complement each other so well that they often came to be spoken of as one – 'Li-Tu' – who covers the whole spectrum of human life, experience and feeling. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Tu Fu

Li, Po

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

Li Po and Tu Fu, who lived in the 8th century, are considered China's greatest poets.  When their paths crossed, for less than two years in the 740's, a friendship was formed that has lasted, in the hearts of lovers of Chinese poetry, for over twelve hundred years.   These poets, and the poems in this book, express two sides of humankind, two kinds of longing and two kinds of life.  The real Li Po was more like Tu Fu than the legend, and the real Tu Fu was enough like Li Po to idolize and perhaps love him.  They are presented here together, separate but side by side, because, as twelve centuries of Chinese readers and nearly a century of Western readers already know, they belong together; they show the qualities of humankind, expressed as purely as men of the greatest genius can express them.Each poem is presented with the original and the translation side by side -- in the original Chinese with an appropriate style of calligraphy on the right side and its English translation on the left side of the page.  Notes and suggestions for further reading appear at the end of the book.

Bright Moon, Perching Birds: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Selected Poems of Tu Fu (Poetica)

Anvil Press Poetry

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.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China. Ch'ien, T'Ao ... [Et Al.]

WANG, Wei

T'Ao Ch'ien

Meng Hao-Jan

Po-Chu-i

Hsieh Ling-Yün

Wei Ying-Wu

Chia Tao

The selections from these five poets constitute some of the greatest lyric poetry ever written. Each poet is introduced by the translator, David Young, and represented by a selection that spans the poet’s development and career.

Five T'Ang Poets

Li Ho

Li Shang-yin

Oberlin College Press

classic Chinese poetry, tr Sam Hamill

Facing the Snow: Visions of Tu Fu (English, Chinese and Chinese Edition)

Yse, Yim

White Pine Pr

Tengo vino, luna y flores: Una pizca de poemas chinos (Spanish Edition)

Wei, Wang

Yu, Li

Lu, Yu

Chu-i, Po

Trevizo, Édgar

Li, Quingzhao

Su, T'ung-Po

Short Stories & Anthologies

Medusa Editores

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