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, translated works, and comments on his poetry by friends, 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 his poems published during that period, translations of famous foreign poets such as Byron, Keats, and Yeats, as well as unpublished sections of Dante's The Divine Comedy, along with Wu Xinghua's own unpublished poems and translations.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 quatrains, sonnets, Spencerian stanzas, and narrative riddles. His poetry, whether in terms of imagery, language, traditional Chinese verse, or Western poetry, shares a deep connection, representing an organic fusion of classical Chinese and modern Western influences. His poems "restore a clear voice, speak frankly, yet all that is implied is present." 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 the human world.