Iain Hollingshead: What Will They Think of Next...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph

What Will They Think of Next...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph


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Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper's huge postbag that never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters inevitably arrive too late for the 24/7 news cycle, or don't quite fit with the rest of the day's selection. Others are just a little too whimsical, or indeed too risque, to publish in a serious newspaper. And more than a few are completely and utterly (and wonderfully) mad. Thankfully Iain Hollingshead is on-hand to give the authors of the best unpublished letters the stage they so richly deserve. Baffled, furious, defiant, mischievous, they inveigh and speculate on every subject under the sun, from the rubbish on television these days to the venality of our MPs. The sixth book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series, with an agenda as enticing as ever, What Will They Think of Next...? will prove, once again, that the Telegraph's readers have an astute sense of what really matters.

"Wei Ying-Wu was undoubtedly one of the great T'ang poets, yet his work is much less well known in the West than What Will They Think of Next...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph free ebook that of Li Po, Tu Fu, and Po Chu-i. Now Red Pine (the lovely pen name that the American poet and Chinese scholar Bill Porter assumes for his translation work) celebrates Wei's life and achievement in a big new anthology, "In Such Hard Times."..Reading him is like listening to Mozart, there's something healing about the calm profundity with which he spins pain and disaster.""Los Angeles Times" [Translator] Red Pine s out-of-the-mainstream work is uncanny and clearheaded. "Kyoto Journal" Red Pine s succinct and informative notes for each poem are core samples of the cultural, political, and literary history of China. "Asian Reporter"Wei Ying-wu (737791) is considered one of the great poets of the T ang Dynasty, ranked alongside such poets as Tu Fu, Li Pai, and Wang Wei. Strangely, though, only a handful of Wei Ying-wu s poems have ever been translated into English.True to his reputation as one of the world s leading translators of Chinese, Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) translates 175 of Wei s poems and demonstrates why he is one of the world s great poets. Presented in a bilingual Chinese-English format, with extensive notes and an informative introduction, "In Such Hard Times" is a long-overdue world premiere."A courtyard of bamboo in the snow at midnight"


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Author: Iain Hollingshead
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2014
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781781312919
Download Link: Click Here
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