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Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi

by Yone NOGUCHI (1875 - 1947)

"Yone Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. Critical evaluations of Noguchi, while varying drastically, have frequently stressed the enigmatic character of his work. Arthur Symons referred to him as a "scarcely to be apprehended personality." Arthur Ransome called him "a poet whose poems are so separate that a hundred of them do not suffice for his expression." Ezra Pound, on first reading The Pilgrimage in 1911 wrote that "His poems seem to be rather beautiful. I don't quite know what to think about them." Nishiwaki Junzaburō wrote, "Most of his earlier poems have always seemed to me so terrific, so bewildering, as to startle me out of reason or system." - Summary by Wikipedia

Listen next episodes of Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi:
Lines , Address to a Soyokaze , Apparition , Autumn Song , By the Enagakuji Temple : Moon Night , By the Sea , Cradle Songs , Fantasia , Ghost of Abyss , Her Weapons are a Smile and a Little Fan , Homekotoba , How Near to Fairyland , I am Like a Leaf , I Hail Myself as I Do Homer - , In Japan Beyond , In the Inland Sea , Japanese Hokkus , Kyoto , Like a Paper Lantern , Lines , My Heart , My Little Bird , O Cho San , O Hana San , Prose Poems , Right and Left , Seas of Loneliness , Shadow , Song of Day in Yosemite Valley , Song of Night in Yosemite Valley , Spring , The Buddha Priest in Meditation , The Desert of ' No More ' , The Eastern Sea , The Face in the Mirror , The Fantastic Snow-flakes , The Garden of Truth , The Goddess : God , The Lady of Utamaro's Art , The Lotus Worshippers , The Myoto , The New Art , The Night Reverie in the Forest , The Poet , The Temple Bell , To a Nightingale , To a Sparrow , To the Cicada , To the Sunflower , Under the Moon , Upon the Heights , What About my Songs , Where is the Poet