Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary
| AUTHOR | Ueda, Makoto |
| PUBLISHER | Stanford University Press (05/01/1995) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
(Western Reserve University Press), Matsuo Basho (Kodansha International), Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (Stanford University Press), Modern Japanese Haiku (University of Toronto Press), Modern Japanese Tanka (Columbia University Press), and The Path of Flowering Thorn: The
Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson (Stanford University Press).