"If, in reading translations, you come across a haiku that does not convey to you any emotion at all, do not blame yourself or the poet. Blame it on the translator!"
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Academics from the United StatesColumbia University alumniColumbia University facultyAmerican art historians
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Haiku in English'. Charles E. Tuttle 1967
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Harold Gould Henderson
Harold Gould Henderson (1889 – 1974) was an American academic, art historian and Japanologist
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