Haiku, Vol. 3: Summer-Autumn

by R.H. Blyth

The meaning of haiku, their directness, simplicity and unintellectuality, are not to be twisted in any way. I do not forget, then, Arnold's words in Human
Ah! let us make no claim
On life's incognizable sea
To too exact a steering of our way!
I understand Zen and poetry to be practically synonyms, but as I said before, if there is ever imagined to be any conflict between Zen and the poetry of Haiku, the Zen goes poetry is the ultimate standard (from Preface).

350 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

Reginald Horace Blyth was an English author, interpreter, translator, devotee of Japanese culture and English Professor, having lived in Japan for eighteen years.