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Three Chinese Poets

Three Chinese Poets

by VikramSeth (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $3.73
Synopsis

The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of civil war and collapse. These three poets of a single generation, responding differently to their common times, crystallise 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 1857997808
ISBN 13: 9781857997804
Book Overview: A Suitable Boy and An Equal Music are world-wide bestsellers An Equal Music has already sold over 250,000 copies in paperback Hardback and paperback editions of A Suitable Boy were Sunday Times number 1 bestsellers Reissued with a brand new cover treatment Over 100,000 copies of A Suitable Boy sold in hardback Half a million copies sold of paperback edition of A Suitable Boy 'Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation' Daniel Johnson, The Tmes Vikram Seth is the winner of the 1994 Commonwealth Writers Prize (A Suitable Boy) and the winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (From Heaven Lake)

Author Bio
Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales.