Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
by Sakutaro Hagiwara
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Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement in the poetic field of General Meiji endeavor to blend ""Western learning with the Japanese spirit."" He and perhaps he alone, have successfully combined the lyric intensity characteristic of the short forms of traditional Japanese poetry with the freedom of length, form and rhythm which show more characterizes the poetry of the West. In him East and West, despite Kipling's dictum, have indeed met; and fro show lessTags
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- 895.6 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese
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- PL808 .A35 .A28 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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