The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry - Softcover

Waley, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802134777 ISBN 13: 9780802134776

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996

Synopsis

One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works, as 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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From the Back 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".

Synopsis:

A scholarly translation of the ancient collection of poems known as the Confucian Odes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802134777
• ISBN 13: 9780802134776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400