Author : Qu Yuan
Release : 2011-07-07
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 266/5 ( reviews)
GET EBOOK
Book Synopsis The Songs of the South by : Qu Yuan
Download or read book The Songs of the South written by Qu Yuan. This book was released on 2011-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.