Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry by Arthur Waley

Stephen Owen (Foreword) · Rating details · ratings · 23 reviews. 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 4/5. 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/5(67).  · The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the Book of Changes (Yi Jing), the Book of History (Shu Jing) and the Book of Rites (Li Chi). All four of these books were already old when Confucius flourished, and tradition states that they were edited by him into their present bltadwin.ru indeed they are, and virtually inaccessible even to those fairly 4/5(1).

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Six Poems from Shih Ching (The Book of Songs) To learn more about this famous collection of poems, click here. 'Fair, fair,' cry the ospreys. The following poem is the first poem appearing in Mao's ordering of the Shih Ching, but is often numbered 87 in English versions of that anthology. Virtually every Chinese student memorizes this poem. Arthur Waley, Joseph Roe Allen. Grove Press, - Poetry - pages. 3 Reviews. Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the. 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.