The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry
Subtitle: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: July 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780231056823
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Asian - General; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Poetry
First sentence: POETRY has been many things to the Chinese over the long centuries of their history - a hymn to ancestral spirits, a celebration of the beauties of nature, an expression of friendship or a pleasant accompaniment to a social gathering, a medium for airing political criticisms, for venting grief, for advancing a courtship.