The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation

by Hosea Hirata

Book Overview

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Val ry. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and French, shaped a highly influential poetic modernism in Japan while elevating the artistic status of translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069816
• ISBN13: 9780691069814
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"