The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta
A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse

A re-issue of Mr Bullett's 1946 text of Fan Cheng-ta's cycle of small poems reflecting the Chinese rural year.

Gerald Bullett (Edited and translated by), Tsui Chi (Contributions by)

9781107679238, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2011

46 pages
20.4 x 12.9 x 0.3 cm, 0.07 kg

Eight centuries divide us from Fan Cheng-ta, but across this gap of time his voice may still be heard - suave, familiar, peaceable - in a cycle of small poems which, reflecting the Chinese rural year, seem as fresh today as when they first came from his brush. The task of rendering the quality of Chinese poetry into English is temptingly difficult; and success in such an enterprise is rare and rewarding. How it came to be attempted by an English poet with the help of a Chinese scholar is told briefly in Mr Bullett's preface. The current edition is a re-issue of Mr Bullett's 1946 text.

Preface
1. Early spring
2. Late spring
3. Summer
4. Autumn
5. Winter
Notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]