The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802134776)

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."

Author: Arthur Waley
ISBN-10: 0802134777
ISBN-13: 9780802134776
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1996
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.20d