Tu Fu (712-770 C.
E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton\'s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America.
In the midst of these challenges, his always personal Poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity.
Most of Tu Fu\'s best Poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war.
Tu Fu (712-770 C.
E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton\'s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America