Overview of Japanese Haiku Poems (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) Book

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 Type :

Poetry

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

1841597554

• Japanese Haiku Poems (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) Published On :

30 Oct 2003

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Poetry Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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