Ezra Pound here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. The 305 odes of the Classic Anthology are the living tradition of Chinese poetry. Since the fifth century before Christ, they have been as familiar to literate Chinese as the Homeric poems were to the ancient Greeks. Indeed, Confucius held that no man was truly educated until he had studied the odes.
- ISBN10 0674133978
- ISBN13 9780674133976
- Publish Date 1 January 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English