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Poems on the Underground (set 63)

Consists of:

• Translated by Ezra Pound, 'Blue, blue is the grass" from '19 Old Poems of the Han' (1st Century AD) 
   
• Li Bai (AD 701-62) translated by Vikram Seth, 'Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute' 
• Po Chu-i (AD 772-846) translated by Arthur Waley, 'The Red Cockatoo' 
   
• Lu Xun (1881-1936) translated by W.J.F. Jenner, 'New Year 1933'
   
• John Keats, 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' 
   
• Edward Lear, 'There was an Old Man of Blackheath' 
   
• Jackie Kay, Promise
   
• Carter Revard, Birch Canoe