The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry Paperback - 1996
by Arthur Waley (Translator); Foreword by Stephen Owen
First line
The Book of Songs opens with the youngest and most celebrated part of the collection: "The Airs of the States" (Guo feng).
From the rear cover
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
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- Title The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
- Author Arthur Waley (Translator); Foreword by Stephen Owen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Subsequent
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-13
- ISBN 9780802134776 / 0802134777
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96023037
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.111
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