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Document (Web, 2013)

Year

2013

Text

Gary Snyder.
http://www.mountainsongs.net/translator_.php?id=15. (Sny2)

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Web

Mentioned People (1)

Snyder, Gary  (San Francisco, Calif. 1930-) : Schriftsteller, Dichter, Professor of English, University of California Davis
[Reproduction of the texts with the permission by Gary Snyder, January 2013].

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America / References / Sources

Chronology Entries (5)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1951 Gary Snyder graduated from Reed College in Portland in Anthropology and Literature.
He studied Far Eastern culture at Reed College and read Ezra Pound's and Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry and classics, was amazed at the convergence of Mahayana Buddhism, Daoism and Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
He ceased his graduate study of linguistics at Indiana University.
  • Document: Tan, Joan Qionglin. Han Shan, Chan buddhism and Gary Snyder's ecopoetic way. (Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2009). S. 136. (Sny16, Publication)
  • Person: Snyder, Gary
2 1953 Gary Snyder studied Oriental culture and languages (Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, French) at the University of California, Berkeley under Peter A. Boodberg and Chen Shixiang. He studied ink and wash painting under Chiura Obata and Tang Dynasty poetry under Chen Shixiang.
  • Document: Wand, David Happell Hsin-fu [Wang, David Rafael]. Cathay revisited : the Chinese tradition in the poetry of Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder. (Los Angeles, Calif. : University of Southern California, 1972). Diss. Univ. of Southern California, 1972. S. 115. (Pou97, Publication)
  • Document: Snyder, Gary. The art of poetry No. 74. Interviewed by Eliot Weinberger. In : The Paris review ; no. 141 (Winter 1996).
    http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1323/the-art-of-poetry-no-74-gary-snyder. (Sny3, Publication)
  • Document: Tan, Joan Qionglin. Han Shan, Chan buddhism and Gary Snyder's ecopoetic way. (Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2009). S. 138. (Sny16, Publication)
  • Person: Snyder, Gary
3 1956-1969 Gary Snyder lives in Japan. He went to Japan on scholarship from the First Zen Institute of America. He went to Japan to accept the strictly disciplined Zen practice under the supervision of a Japanese Rinzai Zen roshi, first Isshu Miura-roshi at Shokokuji, and later (1959-1965) under Sesso Oda-roshi at Daitokuji.
  • Document: Tan, Joan Qionglin. Han Shan, Chan buddhism and Gary Snyder's ecopoetic way. (Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2009). S. 139. (Sny16, Publication)
4 1971 Gary Snyder builds his own house Kitkitdizze in foothills of Sierra Nevada, on the South Fork of the Yuba River.
5 1975 Gary Snyder awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Turtle Island.