Yù Dafu's famous poems and prose

Author: Yu Dafu
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Yu Dafu's prose is diverse in form, including sketches, letters, travel writings, essays, diary-style pieces, and biographical works. These prose pieces share a unified and distinctly unique artistic style—characterized by a more direct and vividly personal nature than novels, conveying a strong, individual voice. Each piece brims with poetic resonance, filled with passionate, rich, and fresh emotions, candidly expressing the troubled heart of a talented intellectual in a turbulent society. This book includes over 180 of Yu Dafu's poems and 47 prose pieces. Most of Yu Dafu's poems are traditional Chinese verse, with many outstanding works among them. These traditional poems are grand and magnificent, with numerous exquisite lines that shimmer with the charm of classical Chinese poetry while also flowing with the fresh and intense spirit of modern life. This has earned the modern writer a remarkable reputation in poetry. Such a phenomenon is rare in the history of 20th-century Chinese literature. The collected works include "Autumn Stay at Shinagawa Inn," "Early Autumn in a Guest House," "Dreaming of an Old Acquaintance," "Pondering Jinling's Ancient Past," "Viewing Osmanthus Flowers in Hakuju Park on the Double Ninth Festival," "Passing by the Water of Yi River," "Village Life Poems," "The Goldfinch," "Japanese Ballad," "Reflections on the New Year's Eve of the Bingchen Year," and "Written on the Sixth Day of the First Month."