1 option
Poetry and Zen : letters and uncollected writings of R. H. Blyth / edited with an introduction by Norman Waddell.
Van Pelt Library PL713.B69 A25 2022
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blyth, Reginald Horace, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critics--Japan--Correspondence.
- Critics.
- Critics--England--Correspondence.
- Buddhist scholars--Japan--Correspondence.
- Buddhist scholars.
- Buddhist scholars--England--Correspondence.
- Haiku--Translating into English.
- Haiku.
- Haiku--History and criticism.
- Blyth, Reginald Horace--Correspondence.
- Blyth, Reginald Horace.
- England.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 451 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc., [2022]
- Summary:
- "This volume is a collection of the letters, uncollected articles and reviews, and selections from posthumous papers of Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964), a man whose books on Zen, Japanese culture, and the Japanese verse forms haiku and senryu captured the imagination of a great many readers in the English-speaking world in the decades following World War II. His enlightening wit and inimitable style struck a particularly sensitive chord in the artistic community, providing inspiration to many poets and writers and playing a very considerable role in kindling Western interest in Zen and haiku. Blyth's penetrating insights on these topics in a series of books published between 1942 and 1970 helped lay the foundation for the remarkable expansion of Zen in the West, as well as the global popularization of haiku as an international verse form that took place after his death"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Letters
- Letters to Dora Lord and Parents
- Letters to Robert Aitken
- Letters to Daisetz Suzuki
- Letter to Alan Watts
- Prefaces And Introductions
- R. L. Stevenson's Will O' the Mill
- Thoreau's Journals
- The Poems of Emerson: A Selection
- A Shortened Version of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- R. L. Stevenson: Fables
- Juroku Nenkan no Oshiego ("My Student for Sixteen Years")
- Book Reviews
- A Wanderer in Japan
- Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings
- Japanese Court Poetry
- Articles And Essays
- Two Autobiographical Essays
- Freedom
- Thoughts on Haiku
- The Position of Haiku and Senryu in World Literature
- Buddhism and Haiku
- Buddhist Sermons on Christian Texts
- Zen and Mysticism
- Buddhism in Senryu
- In Praise of Suzuki Daisetz and Zen
- The Way of Senryu
- Oriental Humour
- Buddhism and Humour
- Untitled
- What Is Poetry?
- "Zen" and Daisetz Suzuki
- Why Nobody Likes Senryu
- The Zenrinkushu
- Haiku, Senryu, Zen
- Mushrooms and Humour
- English Humour and Japanese Humour.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-451).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781611809985
- 1611809983
- OCLC:
- 1252763598
- Publisher Number:
- 99991144296
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.