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One hundred poets, one poem each

Peter McMillan · 2018

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"The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. .."--Publisher description.

Book details

Year
2018
Language
English
Series
Penguin classics
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Editions
1
Pages
248
ISBN
9780141395937

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