TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lowenstein,Tom
AU  - Cleare,John
TI  - Classic Haiku: the greatest Japanese poetry from Bashō, Buson, Issa, Shiki and their followers 
SN  - 9781627950480
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Shelter Harbor Press
KW  - Haiku
KW  - Japanese poetry
N1  - First published: 2007; Includes bibliographical references (page 174) and index; The Haiku -- Bashō -- Seasonal interlude: Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Autumn -- Buson -- Issa -- Shiki
N2  - Classic Haiku contains a selection of about two hundred haiku by the four most celebrated haiku poets of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The texts presented will not be original translations, but versions arrived at through comparative use of literal and literary translations and of commentaries allowing for accessibility for the modern reader. The introduction offers background information about the poets in the anthology, and gives an account of the nature of haiku and its development in relation to Japanese poetic tradition
ER  -