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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated by Eliot Weinberger
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated

by Eliot Weinberger

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bobmcconnaughey in Literary Snobs : just a poetry thread?? (Jan 30, 2009, 2:31pm)

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated.. 19 different translations of one brief, 1200 yr old classic Chinese poem is fascinating too. I'm not a major Snyder or Rexroth fan, but it's v. interesting to see poets tackle the task as opposed to a language scholar. I ...

bobmcconnaughey in Club Read 2009 : Esenin Translation Project (Jan 30, 2009, 2:44am)

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated. I wasn't sure where to put this - but seemed most relevent, if only for comparisons sake, here. 19 different translations of one brief, 1200 yr old classic Chinese poem, w/ commentary by editor Eliot Weinberger. Almost 70 ...

MMcM in Ancient China : It's hard to translate (Feb 27, 2007, 9:55pm)

Intrigued by the Postscript to Nineteen Ways, and with a few minutes at the public library, I had a look at "Philology in Translation Land" from Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg. It's only just over a page long. Weinberger doesn't do Boodberg's argument justice, probably because space ...

keigu in Ancient China : It's hard to translate (Feb 22, 2007, 11:12pm)

... in Modern Haiku (a top magazine) by William Higginson, who was favorably impressed by the multiple translation. While Nineteen Ways is not bad as an essay, you might find as much to chew on in the first chapter of my Fly-ku! . . . Some of the techniques i have developed might work well ...

mvrdrk in Ancient China : It's hard to translate (Feb 7, 2007, 12:05pm)

... 1 meaning 6'. (LOL! I translate classical veery slooowly.) Which puts me in mind, there's a nice little book called Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei : how a Chinese poem is translated by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz which contains a single poem translated 19 different ...

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