Finest Gems

We can understand a people best through their poetry. The Chinese who have written poetry since the beginning of time have always regarded poetry as the finest flower of their culture. If we start with the two Chinese pagoda poems translated by George Puttenham in Arte of Poesie in 1589 classical Chinese poetry has been translated for more than 400 years. Since then the flowers of culture translated by James Legge Hebert Gelis Arthur Waley Ezra Pound Burton Watson David Hendon Hinton and other p...See More