The songs of the south : an ancient Chinese anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and other poets
2011
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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.
Main title:
The songs of the south : an ancient Chinese anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and other poets / translated by David Hawkes.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2011.
Collation:
352 p.
Series title:
Notes:
This translation originally published: 1985.Translated from the Chinese.
ISBN:
9780140443752 (pbk)
Local class:
H895.11008
Language:
EnglishChinese
BRN:
521097