Du Fu

Best Chinese poet. While the Greeks were trapped in their epics and narratives, his poems have a modern poet's sensibility. Sadly, he's an outlier among Chinese poets.

>>9675682
The Chinese always seem to divert from the general 'state' of world culture at any given time, hence why I was looking into their poetry in the first place. You've certainly peaked my interest further, anon, I do hope he lives up to the title of the 'best'.

>>9675691
Anyway, why do you need to get it from the Library? His entire collection is translated for free on the internet.

http://tommazanec.com/blog/2016/01/14/stephen-owens-translation-of-the-complete-works-of-du-fu/

>>9675715
I prefer reading actual print, usually, so if I have the opportunity for it I usually take the physical copy. Thank you for linking this, though.

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Gotta first get an idea of what poetry means in china. And that is already a good deal of work.

In order to have the slightest idea of what the famous Tang poets were doing you have, at least, to know the Shijing and Qu Yuan, or everything might just seem a simple description of nature in verse.

Or, you know, you can just read it as it is presented and project your own ideas on it.