Famous poems and prose of Yu Dafu

Author: Yu Dafu
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
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, openly and unreservedly expressing the troubled heart of a talented intellectual in a turbulent society. This book includes over 180 poems and 47 prose pieces by Yu Dafu. Most of Yu Dafu's poems are classical Chinese verse, with many outstanding works among them. These classical poems are grand and magnificent, with lines that shine with the charm of traditional Chinese poetry while also embodying the fresh and intense spirit of modern life. This has earned this modern writer a remarkable reputation in poetry. It is also a rare phenomenon 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," "Pining for Jinling," "Viewing Osmanthus Flowers in Hakuju Park on the Double Ninth Festival," "Passing by the Water of Yi," "Village Life Poems," "Canary," "Japanese Folk Song," "Reflections on the New Year's Eve of the Bingchen Year," and "Written on the Sixth Day of the First Month."