Poetry and Zen
Poetry and Zen Never before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth's voluminous writings on Zen, Japanese culture, and the Japanese verse forms haiku and senryu captured the…
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Poetry and Zen
Never before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth's voluminous writings on Zen, Japanese culture, and the Japanese verse forms haiku and senryu captured the imagination of a great many readers in the English-speaking world in the decades following World War II. Blyth, champion of Zen and the person who brought haiku to the world.Poetry and Zen is a collection of the letters, articles, translations, reviews, and selections from the posthumous papers of Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964).
His enlightening wit and inimitable style struck a particularly sensitive chord in the artistic community, providing inspiration to many poets and writers and playing a very considerable role in kindling global interest in Zen and haiku.Blyth's penetrating insights on these topics in a series of books published between 1942 and 1970 helped