An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
by Harold Gould Henderson
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Mr. Henderson analyzes the popular seventeen-syllable haiku and provides translations of important works.Tags
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Important as one of the early works that introduced haiku to a widwe poetry reading and writing public in English, though now rather old-fashioned
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Harold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On his return to this country he joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he taught Japanese and initiated a course in the history of Japanese show more art. He retired in 1955. show less
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- 1958
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 895.61082 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese poetry [Collections now 895.61008]
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- PL768 .H3 .H4 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Collections
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