Lute of Jade Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China

Name: Lute of Jade Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China
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ISBN: 9781443717007

ISBN-10: 1443717002

ISBN-13: 9781443717007

Edition: 2008

Authors: L. Cranmer-Byng

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Little under three hundred years, from A .D. 618 to 806, the period of the Tang dynasty, and the great age of Chinese poetry had come and gone. Far back in the twilight of history, at Ieast 1,700 years before Christ, the Chinese people sang their songs of kings and feudal princes good or bad, of husbandry, or now and then songs with the more persoilal note of simple joys and sorrows. All things in these Odes collected by Confucius belong to the surface of life they are the work of those who easily plough light farrows, knowing nothing of hidden gold. Only at rare momonts of exaltation or despair do we hear the lyrical cry rising above the monotone of dreamlike content. Even the magnificent…

Book details

List price: $26.45
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Read Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 116
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English