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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valery. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and Frenc
Trade ReviewFinalist for the 1994 Koizumi Yakurro Prize "In addition to being a well-balanced study of one of twentieth-century Japan's most important poets, Hirata also pioneers possibilities in areas of criticism heretofore often neglected in studies of Japanese literature."--The Journal of Asian Studies
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPt. 1TranslationsSurrealist PoeticsProfanus5The Extinction of Poetry20Esthetique Foraine29Ambarvalia45No Traveller Returns69Eterunitasu117Pt. 2Modernism in TranslationCh. 1Modernist Poetry in Japan131Ch. 2Pure Poetry and Reality149Ch. 3The Detour of Translation167Ch. 4Ambarvalia to Eternity183Notes213Bibliography245Index253
