wORIAS

Cyril Birch, ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century. NY: Grove Press, 1965.

Anne Birrell, trans. New Songs From a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry, Translated with Annotations and an Introduciton. George Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Mikhail Lermonto.Major Poetical Works, translated by Anotoly Liberman. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.Pushkin Threefold: Narrative, Lyric, Polemic, and Ribald Verse, translated by Walter Arndt. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. Ltd., 1972.

Katherine Washburn, John S. Major (Editors), Clifton Fadiman (General Editor). World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.

Wai-lim Yip, ed. and trans. Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres. University of California Press, 1976.

Professor Ashmore's selection of poems from the Chinese landscape tradition for the May 8, 2004 session.

LINKS AND EXERCISES

Translating exercises:

• Lipograms: a text in which one letter of the alphabet is left out entirely.
  

  "Mary Had a Little Lamb" without the letter "S"

  Mary had a little lamb
  With fleece a pale white hue,
  And everywhere that Mary went
  The lamb kept her in view;
  To academe her went with her,
  Illegal, and quite rare;
  It made the children laugh and play
  To view a lamb in there.

  --A. Ross Eckler
  http://www.girltech.com/Game_Cafe/GC_word_factory_lipo.html

• Text messaging - The Lord's Prayer
  
  dad@hvn,ur spshl.we want
  wot u want&urth2b like
  hvn.giv us food&4giv r sins
  lyk we 4giv uvaz.don't test
  us!save us!bcos we kno ur
  boss,ur tuf&ur cool 4 eva!
  ok?

  --Matthew Campbell
  http://cargo.ship-of-fools.com/Features01/Features/RFather.html

• Translation - At Fifteen I Went to War

  Try your hand at translating this Han dynasty poem and compare what other translators have done. Amy Benedicty shares her translation and notes from her process at the bottom of the exercise page.

• Performance - Michele Delattre's notes on oral interpretation.

• Other Poetry Links:
  • Online Poetry Classroom (http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/)
  • In the Tang Dynasty writing poety became part of everyday social life. Visit the Columbia University's Asia for Educator's site for multimedia background.
    http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
    

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