Selected Poems of Du Fu

by Du Fu

Book Overview

Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information--which earned him the epithet "poet-historian."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128290
• ISBN13: 9780231128292
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher