{"id":4699,"date":"2019-12-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:37:24","slug":"butler-reviews-hintons-classical-chinese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"Butler reviews Hinton’s Classical Chinese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Awakened
John Butler on new books by David Hinton<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Writing in the Asian Review of Books<\/a><\/em>, John Butler reviews two new books by David Hinton, Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry<\/em>, David Hinton (Shambhala, 2019) and The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Expanded and Newly Translated<\/em>, (New Directions, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler writes that for previous translators, “Tu Fu was important because he was a poet of understandable emotions, not because of any connections with abstruse philosophy,” but this is where “David Hinton and Awakened Cosmos<\/em> comes in,” since<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as a translator he puts a different emphasis on what he believed Tu Fu was doing and had a different agenda. As Hinton writes, \u201cA typical classical Chinese poem appears to be a plain-spoken utterance about a poet\u2019s immediate experience\u201d … Hinton, however, moves beyond the literal meaning of the poems, their \u201capparent content\u201d, and opens up a universe far beyond their emotional appeal, and that\u2019s why anyone now reading Tu Fu should definitely keep a copy of Awakened Cosmos <\/em>handy. We will then understand how Tu Fu was able to give us \u201ca biography of the Cosmos awakened to itself in the form of a magisterial poet alive in T\u2019ang Dynasty China.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Click the link above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing in the Asian Review of Books, John Butler reviews two new books by David Hinton, Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry, David Hinton (Shambhala, 2019) and The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Expanded and Newly Translated, (New … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[434,180,2221],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1dN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3424,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3424","url_meta":{"origin":4699,"position":0},"title":"Weinberger on Hinton’s and Minford’s versions of the I Ching","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Eliot Weinberger writes about two new translations of the I Ching (Yijing) \u6613\u7d93 in the NYRB: The two latest translations of the\u00a0I Ching\u00a0couldn\u2019t be more unalike; they are a complementary\u00a0yin\u00a0and\u00a0yang\u00a0of approaches. 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