Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Aqua colored cloth boards with gilt lettering. Map illustration on inside front and back covers.300 pgs. VG/F tearing/discoloration dustjacket, age toning on pages. Otherwise pages are clean. Privious owners bookplate on ffep. Item #180564
ISBN: 9780674334847
"These are the words of Tu Fu, the great eighth-century Chinese poet, homesick for his wife and children, distraught by the first of the bloody rebellions that marked the decline of the turbulent T'ang dynasty. Tu Fu has been introduced variously to the Western readers as the CHinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Beranger, Hugo, or Baudelaire. The truth of the matter is that even among the thousands of Chinese poets Tu Fu is unique.:-Dustjacket.
OCLC: 1165506698
Sorry, this book is not available.
Notify me when this comes back in stock.