Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems of Matsuo Bashō (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780791461662)
Vendor:
Matsuo Bashō
Product type:
Books
- $36.95
$36.95- $36.95
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$36.95
Description
x2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world.
David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Author: Matsuo Bashō
ISBN-10: 0791461661
ISBN-13: 9780791461662
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2004
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.50w x 0.57d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1817
Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world.
David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Author: Matsuo Bashō
ISBN-10: 0791461661
ISBN-13: 9780791461662
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2004
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.50w x 0.57d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1817
By Matsuo Bashō
xDavid Landis Barnhill is Director of Environmental Studies and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He is the coeditor (with Roger S. Gottlieb) of Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place: A Multicultural Anthology.
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.