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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Matsuo Basho (Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
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