The Collected Poems Of Li He

J.D. Frodsham

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English

New York Review Books
15 March 2017

Poetry by individual poets

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at

the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to

a later commentator, ""sexual dissipation,"" or both. An obscure and

unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn

on horseback, pause, write a poem, and toss the paper away. A servant

boy followed him to collect these scraps in a tapestry bag.

Long considered far too extravagant and weird for Chinese taste, Li He

was virtually excluded from the poetic canon until the mid-twentieth

century. Today, as the translator and scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes,

""Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for

our disconcerting times."" Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud,

Baudelaire, Keats, and Trakl.

The Collected Poems of Li He is

the only comprehensive selection of his surviving work (most of his

poems were reputedly burned by his cousin after his death, for the honor

of the family), rendered here in crystalline translations by the noted

scholar J. D. Frodsham.

By: J.D. Frodsham
Imprint: New York Review Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 515g
ISBN: 9789629966607
ISBN 10: 9629966603
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 15 March 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Li He (790-816) was a poet of the late Tang dynasty. ""Strange by any standards,"" according to A. C. Graham, ""he offended the conventionality of later taste by his individuality and...by his morbidity and violence."" J. D. Frodsham is an emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at Murdoch University, Australia. His many books include The Murmuring Stream- The Life and Works of Hsieh Ling-Yuan, An Anthology of Chinese Verse, and The First Chinese Embassy to the West.

Reviews for The Collected Poems Of Li He

“Frodsham has...developed aspects of Li He’s biography, generally presenting them more succinctly...Certainly, Professor Frodsham’s finely wrought translation of Li He remains the most cultured of those recent attempts to render into English this intractable, culture-bound Chinese poet.”—Anne M. Birrell, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland