作者简介
Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japane se Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author and translator of more than thirty books on Japanese literature and culture. His Columbia University Press books include The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (2013), So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: War tim e Diaries of Japanese Writers (2010), Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (2009), Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841 (2006), and Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 (2002), as well as a definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.
内容简介
Many books in Japanese have been dev oted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-si x and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is fa mi liar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance of the unh app y poet, but there has been no satis factory biography of his life or care er, even in Japanese, and only a small part of his writings have been translate d. His mature poetry was based on the work of no predecessor, and he left no disciples. Takuboku stands unique.
Takuboku's most popular poems, especially those with a humorous overlay, are often read and memorized, but his diaries and letters, though less familiar, contain rich and vivid glimpses of the poet's thoughts and ex periences. They reflect the outlook of an unconstrained man who at times behaved in a startling or even shocking manner. Despite his mi sd emeanors, Takuboku is regarded as a national poet, all but a saint to his adm irers, especially in the regions of Japan where he live d. His refusal to conform to the Japan of the time drove him in striking directions and ranked him as the first poet of the new Japan.
Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author and translator of more than thirty books on Japanese literature and culture. His Columbia University Press books include The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (2013), So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Wr...
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