Anthony Thwaite

Geoffrey Bownas

A broad-reaching anthology contains accessible translations of more than 700 poems and includes selections from periods ranging from the Nara and Heian to the Kamakura and Muramachi eras, in a treasury that includes examples of tanka, haiku and complex forms. Reprint.

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

Philip Larkin

Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friends to his last year of life, 1985, when he died at the age of sixty-three.

1940-1985

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin

A prefatory section on Japanese prosody provides an illustrative background for this poetic collection

Anthony Thwaite

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