Burton Wilson (translator)
Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century, with Translations by Burton Wilson.
Columbia University Press, 1971. Companions to Asian studies. First edition. 0231034644 232 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in mustard cloth and striped paper boards, with mauve-lettered gray spine label. Book displays shelfwear, with mild foxing to edges of text block. Binding is firm. Small black marker marking appears at top of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright.
"In the thousand years covered by this volume the shih reached its highest level of development. A lyric form which, using a predominantly four-character line, had earlier been employed in the Confucian "Book of Odes", it rose to prominence once more in the period under discussion. The new shih , which differed from the original form only in its use of a five- or seven-character line, became the best known and most characteristic of Chinese poetic forms."