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When Hinton published his book, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated, in 2019, he also published a companion volume, Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry.
Tu Fu, trans. from the Chinese by David Hinton. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-81122-838-1 Hinton translated the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu (712–770 CE ...
Du Fu (712-770 AD) is regarded by many Chinese as their greatest poet. He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty. As a ...
Chinese experts rate Wei among the greatest poets of China's classic era, right alongside Tu Fu and Li Po; severe, self-critical, openly political and prone at times to self-pity, Wei remains ...