JAPANESE HAIKU POEMS

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Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets. The book is dominated by four great masters - Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki - who between them compress the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen syllables.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781841597553
Published: October 2003

Number of pages: 256
Width: 113 mm
Height: 165 mm
Depth: 19 mm

Publisher: Everyman