Wu Xinghua Poetry Collection · Poetry Volume

Author: Wu Xinghua
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Wu Xinghua's poetry had a significant influence in the 1930s and 1940s. This collection includes his essays, literary critiques, translations, and comments by friends on his poetry, as well as reminiscences about him. The book allows readers to interpret the profound meanings of Wu Xinghua's works and understand his tragic life cut short at a young age. Wu Xinghua was both a poet and a translator. Most of his original poems and translated works were published during the 1930s and 1940s. Wu Xinghua's Collected Works·Poetry Volume includes poems he published during that period, translations of famous foreign poets such as Byron, Keats, and Yeats, as well as unpublished sections of Dante's The Divine Comedy, along with Wu Xinghua's own unpublished poems and translations. In his early years, Wu Xinghua wrote poems in various Western forms, including the quatrains, sonnets, Spenserian stanza, and narrative rondeau, in addition to traditional Chinese styles like the shi form. His poetry, whether in terms of imagery, language, or tradition, shares a deep connection with both classical Chinese and Western modern poetry, representing an organic fusion between the two. His poems are described as "restoring a clear voice, speaking candidly, while implying everything." Some of his short poems possess profound philosophical depth and irony, leaving readers light-hearted and amused. His love poems reveal the vivid and delicate emotions of human life.