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Japanese Haiku Poems

Peter Washington

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Everyman's Library
15 October 2003
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.
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Imprint:   Everyman's Library
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   33
Dimensions:   Height: 165mm,  Width: 113mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   231g
ISBN:   9781841597553
ISBN 10:   1841597554
Series:   Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams

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