| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-388). |
| Contents |
Map of the Zhou Feudal Kingdom -- Important Legendary and Historical Figures -- Foreword / Stephen Owen -- South of Zhou, 1-11 -- South of Shao, 12-25 -- Airs of Bei, 26-44 -- Airs of Yong, 45-54 -- Airs of Wei, 55-64 -- Airs of the Royal Domain, 65-74 -- Airs of Zheng, 75-95 -- Airs of Qi, 96-106 -- Airs of Wey, 107-13 -- Airs of Tang, 114-25 -- Airs of Qin, 126-35 -- Airs of Chen, 136-45 -- Airs of Gui, 146-49 -- Airs of Cao, 150-53 -- Airs of Bin, 154-60 -- The Minor Odes, Poems 161-234 -- The Major Odes, Poems 235-65 -- The Zhou Hymns, 266-96 -- The Lu Hymns, 297-300 -- The Shang Hymns, 301-05 -- App. Waley's Original Topical Categories and Order of Poems -- Postface: A Literary History of the Shi jing. |
| Summary |
"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.""--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Chinese poetry.
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Chinese poetry -- Translations into English.
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Chinese poetry. (OCoLC)fst00857672
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Waley, Arthur.
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Allen, Joseph Roe.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Shi jing. English. Book of songs. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, ©1996 (OCoLC)988738964 |
| ISBN |
0802134777 |
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9780802134776 |
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