Poems of the Late T'Ang [Audiobook] download free by A. C. Graham
- Listen audiobook: Poems of the Late T'Ang
- Author: A. C. Graham
- Release date: 2008/7/30
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Books for Ages 9-11
- ISBN: 9781590172575
- Rating: 9.51 of 10
- Votes: 374
- Review by: Alaric Bourne
- Review rating: 9.27 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/19
- Duration: 2H12M49S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, MPEG4, WavPack, FLAC, MP3 (compression TAR.GZ, AZW, RPM, TBZ2, ALZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M35S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham's slim but indispensable anthology of late T'ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the work of six other masters, including the 'cold poet' Meng Chiao, who wrote of retreat from civilization to the remoteness of the high mountains; the troubled and haunting Li Ho, who, as Graham writes, cultivated a 'wholly personal imagery of ghosts, blood, dying animals, weeping statues, whirlwinds, the will-o'-the-wisp'; and the shimmeringly strange poems of illicit love and Taoist initiation of the enigmatic Li Shang-yin. Offering the largest selection of these poets' work available in English in a translation that is a classic in its own right, Poems of the Late T'ang also includes Graham's searching essay 'The Translation of Chinese Poetry' as well as helpful notes on each of the poets and on many of the individual poems.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry Anthologies (various Poets), Poetry Books for Kids, Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.67 USD
- Dimensions: 125x200x10mm
- Weight: 260g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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