Poetry of Yuan Haowen

John Timothy Wixted (B.A. Toronto, M.A. Stanford, D.Phil . Oxford) is Emeritus Professor of Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. In addition to translation of Yoshikawa K?jir?’s Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150–1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, he is the author of four books: Poems on Poetry: Literary Criticism by Yuan Haowen (1190–1257), The Song-Poetry of Wei Chuang (836– 910 A.D.), Japanese Scholars of China: A Bibliographical Handbook, and A Handbook to Classical Japanese. He has also published numerous articles on Sino-Japanese poetry (kanshi), especially that of Mori ?gai (1862–1922). Retired in Michigan, he recently relocated to Argentina.

Some critics have justifiably acclaimed Yuan Haowen to be one of China’s greatest poets. And yet, no monograph on his life and extensive body of extant poetry has been published in English. That is, until now. John Timothy Wixted’s The Poetry of Yuan Haowen: Introduced, Interpreted, Explicated presents translations of 150 selections of Yuan’s most representative poems. The English renditions of the poems read beautifully; the lucid commentary, which distills available scholarship on the poet in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, will interest China specialists and the general reader. Each verse is accompanied by Pinyin romanization so readers at any level of knowledge in Chinese have direct access to the original text. A significant milestone in the ever-growing corpus of English scholarship on traditional Chinese poetry."" —James M. Hargett, Professor Emeritus, University at Albany, SUNY