Author: Harold Gould Henderson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry
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ISBNs: 9780385093767 0385093764 |
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The brevity and apparent simplicity of the seventeen syllable haiku contributes to its wide popularity in Japan, where great numbers are written each year, and to its growing influence on Western poetry.
In the hands of the great masters, as Mr. Henderson shows in this analytical anthology, the haiku is a very exacting form indeed, requiring compliance with the strictest aesthetic standards of correctness, objectivity, and suggestiveness. It is these qualities that attracted such Western writers as William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound to the form and that accounts for its pervasive, if largely unproclaimed, influence on their poetry and that of their followers.
As this book demonstrates, a great haiku must be not only lucid but richly suggestive to the attentive reader. In this, haiku captures the essence of lyric poetry as it has been practiced through the ages. In its variety and richness it also reflects the chief characteristics of Japanese painting and religion.
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