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<p>Selected as One of the Sixty-five Masterpieces for the UNESCO Collection of Representative WorksThe fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid of prose and rhymed verse, more expansive than the condensed lyrics, verging on what might be called Whitmanesque. The thirteen long poems included here are descriptions of and meditations on such subjects as mountains and abandoned cities, the sea and the wind, owls and goddesses, partings and the idle life.Burton Watson is universally considered the foremost English-language translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature for the past five decades. Gary Snyder calls him a "great and graceful scholar, " and Robert Aitken has written that "Burton Watson is a superb translator because he knows what literature is." Here his seemingly effortless translations are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction to the development and characteristics of the fu form, as well as excerpts from contemporary commentary on the genre. A path-breaking study of pre-modern Chinese literature and an ess

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Author

Burton Watson • Preface by Lucas Klein

Publisher

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ; New York Review Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789629969301

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.29 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14