"His poems do not as a rule come through very well in translation."
— Du Fu

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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David Hawkes, A Little Primer of Tu Fu (1967), p. ix

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David Hawkes, A Little Primer of Tu Fu (1967), p. ix