The Book of Songs

by Arthur Waley (Author), TheArthurWaleyEstate (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $257.51

  First published in 1937, this volume is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until it was published in 1937, it had not been translated into English since the middle of the 19th century.

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $17.08

  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.