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The book of songs / translated by Arthur Waley ; edited with additional translations by Joseph R. Allen ; foreword by Stephen Owen ; postface by Joseph R. Allen.

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The book of songs / translated by Arthur Waley ; edited with additional translations by Joseph R. Allen ; foreword by Stephen Owen ; postface by Joseph R. Allen.
Publication
New York : Grove Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Waley, Arthur
  • Allen, Joseph Roe
Description
xxv, 388 p.; 22 cm.
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.""--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
Shi jing. English
Subject
  • Chinese poetry
  • Chinese poetry > Translations into English
Genre/Form
Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0802134777
LCCN
^^^96023037^
OCLC
  • 34705137
  • SCSB-11504970
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library