In a world that was either pragmatic or moralizing (or both), song lyric was a discourse of sensibility, which literally gave a beautiful voice to everything that seemed increasingly to be disappearing in the new Song dynasty world of righteousness and public advancement. At the same time the genre claimed a new set of aesthetic values to radically distinguish it from older “Classical Poetry,” shi. A strange gender dynamic arose, in which men often wrote in the voice of a woman and her imagined feelings, then appropriated that sensibility for themselves.Īs an essential part of becoming literature, a history was constructed for the new genre. Books by Stephen Owen Flying Key Brothers and Their Flight to Remember 0961483008 Book Cover All Mine: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century. Originally published to great acclaim by Yale University Press as The Poetry of the Early Tang in 1977, this Quirin Press Revised Edition offers the full. I held back The Book of Songs, feeling that it needed a leisurely revision. In 1941, owing to a fire caused by incendiary Some years later bombs, went out of it when my other books were reprinted, print.

Young women singers, either indentured or private entrepreneurs, were at the heart of song practice throughout the period the authors of the lyrics were notionally mostly male. The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry a book by Arthur Waley and Stephen Owen One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Stephen Owen, Harvard University Preface to the Second Edition This book was first published in 1937. From the early eleventh century through the first quarter of the twelfth century, song lyric evolved from an impromptu contribution in a performance practice to a full literary genre, in which the text might be read more often than performed. The Songs of Chu Columbia University Press Pub Date: July 2017 ISBN: 9780231166072 304 Pages Format: Paperback List Price: 37.00£30.00 Add To Cart Pub Date: July 2017 ISBN: 9780231166065 304 Pages Format: Hardcover List Price: 120.00£100. “Song Lyric,” ci, remains one of the most loved forms of Chinese poetry.

The Book of Songs by Stephen Owen