![]() All have notes, which vary in length from a paragraph to several pages. Some are accompanied by calligraphic texts in various styles, which are more to be looked at than read. There are 25 poems by Li Bai and 18 by Du Fu, indexed both by title and by first line. It is full of perceptive insights, and should prove enjoyable as well as educational for novice and expert alike. This introduces the two poets' lives and works, but also considers their cultural and historical background, the distinctive features of Chinese poetry and the problems which it poses in translation. ![]() The first hundred pages of the book are taken up by an excellent introduction. ![]() Born in 1916, his "real job" was as a diplomat he then retired and produced these translations in the 1970s. Arthur Cooper: Li Po and Tu Fu Arthur Cooper: Li Po and Tu FuĪrthur Cooper was a wonderfully eccentric, old school, Englishman squarely in the Arthur Waley mould. ![]()
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