Chants de Chu
The collection of poems by Qu Yuan and Song Yu included in "Chu Ci", as well as works by other Chu poets (or poets writing in the Chu style), represent a certain development of an older tradition which eventually achieved a period of popularity and imperial favor during the Western Han Dynasty. The "Book of Han" noted 106 Chu poets with 1,318 compositions. Many established Han poets also wrote in the "chu ci" style, producing their fair share of notable poems: the term "Chu Ci" can generically refer to the type of verse in this formal style of this type of verse. Other "chu ci" style verses were written, including some which survive, but are not generally included in the standard anthology. Wang Yi made an extensive commentary on the "Chu Ci", as well as appending his own "Nine Longings", as the seventeenth and final section.