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.
Edited by:
Peter Washington 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:15 October 2003 Audience:
General/trade
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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