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The Book of Songs
'Guan, guan, cry the ospreys.' The Book of Songs is the oldest Chinese poetry: 305 songs of love, harvest, war, feasts and ancestors. Collected, according to tradition, by Confucius himself, the songs range from village love songs and work songs to court odes and temple hymns, and they have been memorised for two and a half thousand years. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Each poem is given in clear English that keeps its images and its order of lines, so readers can follow the poet's thought without notes. Poetry was the highest art of traditional China, written by emperors, officials, monks, courtesans and soldiers, and these poems are among the finest ever written in any language.
