Download or read book Chinese Poems Classic Reprint written by Charles Budd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Poems is a short collection of poetry translated into English by Charles Budd. Now republished by Forgotten Books, this collection provides the reader with the opportunity to enjoy some of China's finest and most lyrical poems. Following a brief preface from translator Charles Budd, in which he explains how he came about the project of translating Chinese poems almost by accident, the book opens in earnest with an overview of the history and techniques of Chinese poetry. These opening chapters are crucial to the reader's interpretation of the poems presented in this collection. Budd discusses the most common structures of Chinese poetry and explains the steps and challenges faced in translating these words into English. Following the introductory overview of Chinese poetry, a chapter is devoted to providing short biographies of the most prominent Chinese poets. These biographies serve as an introduction to the great Chinese poets, and provide the reader with some much needed context from which to approach the works presented. This collection includes a total of fifty-five works from some of China's most well known poets. The poems themselves are predictably beautiful, creating wonderful scenes and drawing emotion from the reader. Standouts include The Flower Seller, Midnight in the Garden, and The Journey Back. Budd's translations are effective in preserving the tone and imagery of the originals. Chinese Poems will appeal to any poetry enthusiast, in particular those who enjoy delving into the poetry of other nations. This book provides the rare opportunity to read the works of some of China's great poets in English, and is thus highly recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems Classic Reprint written by Arthur Waley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems Realizing the Futility of Life 230 Rising Late and Playing with A-ts'ui, aged Two 231 On a Box containing his own Works 232 On being Sixty 233 Climbing the Terrace of Kuan-yin and looking at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chinese Poetry in English Verse Classic Reprint written by Herbert Allen Giles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese Poetry in English Verse And then I used to watch and wait To see you passing through the gate; And sometimes when I watched in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Few Famous Chinese Poems written by Charles Budd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Few Famous Chinese Poems: Translated Into English The initiative of this little book was accidental. One day in June, feeling weary of commercial papers and Chinese account-books, I opened a volume of Chinese poetry that was lying on my desk and listlessly turned over the pages. As I was doing so my eye caught sight of the phrase. Red rain of peach flowers fell. That would be refreshing, I said to myself, on such a day as this; and then I went on with my work again. But in the evening I returned to the book of Chinese poetry and made a free translation of the poem in which I had seen the metaphor quoted above. The translation seemed to me and some friends pleasantly readable st) in leisure hours I have translated a few more poems and ballads and these I now venture to publish in a small volume, thinking they may give the readers a little pleasure and also call forth criticism that will be useful in preparing a larger volume which I hope to publish hereafter; for it can hardly be said that hitherto the field of Chinese poetry has been widely explored by foreign students of the Chinese language. Several of the translations in this booklet are nearly literal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Poems From the Chinese Classic Reprint written by Arthur Waley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems From the Chinese S a boat is danced Where the waves will, SO I on my bed In torment tossed Lie long awake; Nor Wine, nor sport Can ease my pain. Oh that my heart were a glass Wherein I might read! To my brothers I went, Sought help and found it not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twenty Chinese Poems written by Clifford Bax and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Chinese Poems: Paraphrased Thus in a little while we became good friends, and at length on arriving at Kyoto, the most picturesque of her larger cities and the olden capital of Japan, we would pass enchanted hours among the antique temples with their lily-lakes, their rocky winding gardens, their perfumed silences, and the faint-lit golden figures of the Buddha. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Few Famous Chinese Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry of the Chinese Classic Reprint written by John Francis Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetry of the Chinese When this Treatise was first printed (now more than forty years ago), with types brought from China, in the quarto Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, the foreign character was so little known in England, that Lord Palmerston, with his usual pleasantry, said he took it "at first sight for a work on Entomology." But the number of Entomologists (in this peculiar sense) has so increased in the last half century, that the eye has become sufficiently familiar with a page of Chinese type; and a newspaper printed in modern Greek has been followed, in our cosmopolitan London, by the Fei-Loong, or "Flying Dragon," a Chinese advertiser, in the original character. Sir James Macintosh, reviewing in the Edinburgh a translation of the Chinese Penal Code by Sir George Staunton, made some striking remarks on its "European good sense," which seems to apply more or less to all branches of Chinese literature. "There is nothing of the monstrous verbiage of most other Asiatic productions, - none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous non-sequiturs, and eternal repetitions of those oracular performances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Shi King the Old Poetry Classic of the Chinese written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shi King written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Shi King: The Old "Poetry Classic" Of the Chinese In the year 1886 I gave an address on "Books and Reading" at the Working Men's College, which in the following year was printed as one of the chapters in my "Pleasures of Life." In it I mentioned about one hundred names, and the list has been frequently referred to since as my list of "the hundred best books." That, however, is not quite a correct statement. If I were really to make a list of what are in my judgment the hundred greatest books, it would contain several - Newton's "Principia," for instance - which I did not include, and it would exclude several - the "Koran," for instance - which I inserted in deference to the judgment of others. Again, I excluded living authors, from some of whom - Ruskin and Tennyson, Huxley and Tyndall, for instance, to mention no others - I have myself derived the keenest enjoyment; and especially I expressly stated that I did not select the books on my own authority, but as being those most frequently mentioned with approval by those writers who have referred directly or indirectly to the pleasure of reading, rather than as suggestions of my own. I have no doubt that on reading the list, many names of books which might well be added would occur to almost any one. Indeed, various criticisms on the list have appeared, and many books have been mentioned which it is said ought to have been included. On the other hand no corresponding omissions have been suggested. I have referred to several of the criticisms, and find that, while 300 or 400 names have been proposed for addition, only half a dozen are suggested for omission. Moreover, it is remarkable that not one of the additional books suggested appears in all the lists, or even in half of them, and only about half a dozen in more than one. But while, perhaps, no two persons would entirely concur as to all the books to be included in such a list, I believe no one would deny that those suggested are not only good, but among the best. I am, however, ready, and indeed glad, to consider any suggestions, and very willing to make any changes which can be shown to be improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book of Chinese Poetry written by Clement Francis Romilly Allen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Chinese Poetry: Being the Collection of Ballads, Sagas, Hymns, and Other Pieces Known as the Shih Ching or Classic of Poetry "If Chinese scholars would bring the ancient literature near to us, if they would show us something in it that really concerns us, something that is not merely old but eternally young, Chinese studies would soon take their place in public estimation by the side of Indo-European, Babylonian, and Egyptian scholarship." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book of Chinese Poetry written by Clement Francis Romilly Allen and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A hundred and seventy Chinese poems written by Arthur Waley and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fir Flower Tablets written by Florence Ayscough and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese Our plan of procedure was as follows: Mrs. Ayscough would first write out the poem in Chinese. Not in the Chinese characters, of course, but in transliteration. Op posits every word She put the various meanings of it which accorded with its place in the text, since I could not use a Chinese dictionary. She also gave the analyses of whatever Characters seemed to her to require it. The lines were carej fully indicated, and to these lines I have, as a rule adhered; the lines Of the translations usually corresponding, therefore, with the lines of the originals. In the few poems in which the ordering Of the lines has been Changed this has been done solely in the interest of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book More Translations From the Chinese Classic Reprint written by Arthur Waley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from More Translations From the Chinese While many of the pieces in 170 Chinese Poems aimed at literary form in English, others did no more than give the sense of the Chinese in almost as crude a way as the two examples above. It was probably because of this inconsistency that no reviewer treated the book as an experiment in English unrhymed verse, though this was the aspect of it which most interested the writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems Classic Reprint written by Vachel Lindsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems A Song in Chinese Tapestries How, how, he said. Friend Chang, I said, San Francisco sleeps as the dead Ended license, lust and play Why do you iron the night away? Your big clock Speaks with a deadly sound, With a tick and a wail till dawn comes round. While the monster shadows glower and creep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Queen of China and Other Poems Classic Reprint written by Edward Shanks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Queen of China, and Other Poems Too long this long and lightless way I have trod And suddenly now I see What thing I tread, Lit by a transient flash of the lightning brain, That leaps in the sky an instant and is dead But, having shown, needs not to come again. Ridiculous treadmill! That the sorry fool Thinks is the road to joy, his brain is so dull. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
