David M Hinton

The Films of Leni Riefenstahl

The Films of Leni Riefenstahl

Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester: Artifacts from Medieval Winchester

Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins: Possessions and People in Medieval Britain

Gold And Gilt, Pots And Pins: Possessions And People in Medieval Britain

A Smith in Lindsey: The Anglo-saxon Grave at Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire

A Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, 700-1100 in the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum

Alfred's Kingdom: Wessex and the South 800-1500

The Selected Poems of Tu Fu

For over a millennium, Chinese literati have almost unanimously considered Tu Fu (712-770 A.D.) to be their greatest poet. Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable s...

The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien

T'ao Ch'ien, (365 - 427, C.E.), one of the most revered poets in classical Chinese literature, is presented in a lucid translation with an introduction. "David Hinton is one of the most impressive of the younger translators of classical Chinese poetry.... His renderings are varied and imaginative wh...

Fossil Sky

An epic poem in the form of a lyrical map, Fossil Sky is a remarkable creation of originality and beauty. Composed on a single large sheet, it liberates poetry from the conventions of page and book. Fossil Sky distills a year of walks taken near the poet’s home, tracing the paths a mind take...

Tao Te Ching

Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Like all of his translations, Hinton's translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting ...

The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih

A selection of poems by the ancient Chinese poet and statesman Wang Ah-Shih, translated by David Hinton.Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure―not only one of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and controversial statesman of his time. Although Wang had little ...

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China

The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and ye...

Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world li...

I Ching: The Book of Change

A master translator's beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese textIn a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegan...