The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets

by Qu Yuan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141971261
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	07/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	3 MB