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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895
EAN: 9780140444599
ISBN: 0140444599
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: January 07, 1986
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.
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This collection of translations has much to be desired when compared to other haiku books. Nevertheless, there is some value for those who are not familiar with the Japanese haiku form. This book provides a brief history of Basho and his development of this form of poetry. As a lover of haiku, I still found this book fun to read, even though there are flaws in some of the translations. In conclusion, this book is for anyone interested in learning something about Basho and haiku. Rating: 3 stars. ... Read More
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It is apparently very difficult to find a good translation of Basho. I am delighted that I did not know this when I was younger, and fell in love with Basho and his haiku as part of my discovery of poetry. I am a little bit sorry now that I have discovered it when older since I have to worry about whether what I am reading is *really* Basho or whether it is just Lucian Stryk making misuse of the patina of Basho's reputation.
Whatever. I consciously chose this translation because I tend to ... Read More
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The best translations of Basho's work.....Beautiful. A great poet and someone who seems to understand Basho.
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At a time when Milton and Dryden were producing their prolix epics, the Japanese Zen monk Basho was paring poetic language down to its very essence, managing to pack as much philosophy and metaphysics, narrative, evocation of place and custom, human behaviour and emotion in 17 syllable haikus as the Englishmen did in endless cantos. Unfortunately, the non-Japanese reader will never be able to appreciate Basho - his poetic art is such an inseparable union of form and content, that an inability to translate ... Read More
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Basho book on table-
Cezanne fruit bowl too
It's time to party
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Dewey Decimal Number: 895
EAN: 9780140444599
ISBN: 0140444599
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: January 07, 1986
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics