Cover of The Japanese haiku

Book 1957

The Japanese haiku

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Publisher
Charles E. Tuttle Co.
Language
English
Published
1957
  • History and criticism
  • Translations into English
  • English poetry
  • Japanese poetry
  • Haiku
  • Translations from Japanese
  • Theory
  • Haiku, history and criticism

A DEFINITION OF the term haiku which will cover not only its formal characteristics but will also embody something of its breathing beauty and its allusive life is a difficulty which probably faces the definers of any art form.