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Eighth Century Chinese Writer Tu Fu Is The Greatest Poet You’ve Never Heard Of

Of all the greatest poets that have ever written, which is the least known to American readers? I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang ...
Publishers Weekly

The Selected Poems of Tu Fu

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) to be ...
Publishers Weekly

Du Fu: A Life in Poetry

Not a biography, but instead a very coherent book of free translations, this new volume translated by Young (Black Lab) gives the sense of a life as lived, a life that belongs at once to Du Fu ...
The Guardian

In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood review – the great poet’s progress

A superb evocation of the Chinese master and his travels To our shame, few of us outside China know much about the country’s classical poetry. It doesn’t help that the way the names of leading poets ...
BBC

China’s Shakespeare - Du Fu and his poetry

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 ...