Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets.
The book is dominated by four great masters - Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki - who between them compress the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen syllables.
| ISBN: | 9781841597553 |
| Publication date: | 30th October 2003 |
| Author: | Peter Washington |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
| Genres: |
Poetry anthologies (various poets) |
Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America.
Japanese Haiku Poems features in the following genres: Poetry anthologies (various poets)
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Japanese Haiku Poems was written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman
Japanese Haiku Poems has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library POCKET POETS series
£10.80, reduced from £12.00. In Stock.