Reginald Horace Blyth Quotes About Translations

Quotes about: Translations

• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, School, Expression

• Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Stills, Translations

• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Topics, Firsts

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