Broad sea and empty sky : China's first great modern poet, Xu Zhimo / Dorothy Trench Bonett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Zhimo, 1897-1931, author.

Contributor:

Trench-Bonett, Dorothy, translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xu, Zhimo, 1897-1931.

Chinese poetry--Translations.

Chinese poetry.

Xu, Zhimo, 1897-1931--Translations.

Xu, Zhimo.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Warren, CT : Floating World Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) was China's first great modern poet and a major figure of the intellectual revolution that shaped modern China. He was educated in China and abroad, including at King's College, Cambridge; his poem about leaving that beloved school is known by practically every Chinese, and each year hundreds of thousands of them make the pilgrimage to the memorial and garden established there in his honor. A world traveler who lived a short life during tumultuous times, he was in contact with every major Chinese literary figure of his day, and met and was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore, Thomas Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, and Bertrand Russell, among others. Xu fused elements of foreign poetic styles with native Chinese traditions to create a body of work that spoke to his contemporaries at a critical time in their history, and still speaks today. This book presents the largest selection of Xu's poems available in English, as well as excerpts from some of his prose works. Essays and commentary put the poet in context for English-speaking readers and reveal links between his works and other modern poetry, both Chinese and non-Chinese."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Earliest Poem

Vignettes (Brush Sketches)

The Ancient Tribe of Hua

Love

A Night in Florence

Grief

Clouds in Your Western Sky

Broad Sea and Empty Sky

Singers and Heroes

Prose and Talks

Xu as Translator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1891640984

9781891640988

OCLC:

1152385102

Publisher Number:

99987741680