There are innumerable collections of Chinese poetry.   Some are collected by poet, e.g. Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi , Tao Yuanming, and the oth...

Henry David Thoreau is a name known to many.   But with good reason, it’s not for his poetry.   A far better prose stylist than poet, ...

Lin Yutang was not to know the adjective he chose to describe the most brilliant Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty would evolve in the ...

After reading “The Poor Knight,” Pushkin’s homage to Don Quixote in verse, it was difficult not to ...