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Graham was a noted scholar of Warring States-era philosophical texts. Some of the translations in this little book, first published by Penguin in the …

Pound’s 1915 masterpiece, a short collection that inaugurated an important tradition in twentieth-century poetry and also had an important impact on…

A fascinating discussion of various translator’s versions of the same famous quatrain by Wang Wei. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s commentary on hi…

These wonderful translations from the work of a Tang-era recluse haven’t aged since they were published in the Evergreen Review in 1958.

These volumes provide a wealth of information about the character and development of Chinese poetry during the Tang. (Owen also wrote a volume on The …