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The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems

By (author) Yuan Qu, By (author) etc., Translated by D. Hawkes






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The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.

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Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd
Published date | 29 Aug 1985
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Format | Paperback
Pages | 352
Dimensions | 197 x 128 x 16mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 361g
ISBN | 978-0-1404-4375-2
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BISAC | poetry / asian


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