A LITTLE PRIMER FOR TU

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the first complete poetic se nsibility in Chinese literature. Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the h orrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to a wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkess classic st...[Read more]