Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

'In the way of the pioneer translators of Chinese poetry during the past century--of Arthur Waley, Burton Watson, Willis Barnstone--David Hinton has heard and lured into English a new manner of hearing the great poets of that long glory of China's classical age. His achievement is another echo of the original, and a gift to our language.' --W. S. Merwin'Hinton has established himself as the premier Chinese translator of our generation . . . He is a national treasure.' --William Mullen, 'The New York Sun''I don't know if [Hinton's 'Selected Poems of Po Chu-i'] is superior to the original or not, but it's superior to anything I've ever seen in Chinese, and about the same for English.' --A. R. Ammons 'Hinton's music is subtle, modulated . . . He has listened to the individual tone of each poet, and his craft is equal to his perception . . . He continues to enlarge our literary horizon.' --Rosemary Waldrop, citation for the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award'['The Late Poems of Meng Chiao'] affords us what is all too rare in Chinese translations: the sustained, recognizable resonance of a single voice at a single moment . . . This is a real contribution to the small body of genuine poetic translation.' --Richard Howard 'Given the magnitude of his ability and his overall project, Hinton is creating nothing less than a new literary tradition in English, an event of truly major importance not only to English literature but also to the literature of my own language. I cannot recommend the value of his work too highly.'-- Bei Dao