Beyond Chrysanthemums: Perspectives on Poetry East and West by Reckert, Stephen

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1993-10-28. 1. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Introduction: Writing in Other Languages -- I. Lyra Minima: Structure, Style, and Symbol in Traditional Verse. 1. A Minimalist Poetics. 2. Golden Lamps in a Green Night. 3. Structure, Style, and Symbol -- II. Strange Islands, Gardens of Desire. 4. Insulas extranas. 5. The Isle of Venus (Iconography of an Archetype) -- III. The Horizons of Silence. 6. Limits and Thresholds. 7. Beyond Chrysanthemums. Subjects: Poetry History and criticism; Poetics; Myth in literature; East and West in literature; Comparative literature; Symbolism.

Hardback. New. Assesses the relevance for the West of Eastern aesthetic and poetic principles in a discussion of over 200 poems in 17 languages, with parallel translations. The book draws on Far Eastern, Iberian and Latin American poetry - a contribution to the study of comparative poetics and poetic theory.

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