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Shi-Jing, or Book of Songs: China's Earliest Verse Anthology
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The poems are offered in the versions I translate using the endlessly varied melodious forms devised for them by the phenomenally gifted 19th-century poet-translator Friedrich Rckert. He is correct in saying he has "appropriated" [angeeignet] his materials. The anonymous collection is reshaped and newly crafted by this world-class German poet and linguistic genius, who was himself a major humanist educator. In disclosing that double role, Rckert's Shi-Jing may be called his own centrally symbolic achievement, his paradigm contribution to world literature.
The poems are offered in the versions I translate using the endlessly varied melodious forms devised for them by the phenomenally gifted 19th-century poet-translator Friedrich Rckert. He is correct in saying he has "appropriated" [angeeignet] his materials. The anonymous collection is reshaped and newly crafted by this world-class German poet and linguistic genius, who was himself a major humanist educator. In disclosing that double role, Rckert's Shi-Jing may be called his own centrally symbolic achievement, his paradigm contribution to world literature.
Paperback
$17.95