Poems From The Chinese: A Selection of Waley's Best Translations

These are called ''' Poems from the Chinese"" and we have Mr. Waley's assurance that there are in existence Oriental originals.
But if it be so (and, of course it is) then we have here a literary miracle. It is a platitude that translation of poetry is either bad verse or bad translation. But Mr. Waley, translating not merely from one language into another, but almost from one planet into another, has produced a body of living poetry, in which there is every reason to believe he re-creates,...