300 Tang Poems

by Geoffrey Waters (Translator), Michael Farman (Translator), David Lunde (Translator)

"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on through the beauty of these poems. The night is young, and this book is full of music."—Red Pine Three Hundred Tang Poems includes great names like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, as well as a splendid sampling of the rest of poets who helped to make the Tang the golden age of Chinese poetry.

Genres: Poetry

370 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2011

Reviews

[Steven Severance · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very famous anthology of Tang Dynasty poems , though compiled in the 18th century.

I read this book in one day and it made me giddy by the end.