{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop000.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop000.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop000.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Confucianism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nThe Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n THE BOOK OF POETRY\n CHINESE TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION\n BY\n JAMES LEGGE, D.D., LL.D.\n THE CHINESE BOOK COMPANY\n SHANGHAI, CHINA\n [1931]\n \n \u00a0\n \n Original publication:\n THE SHE KING;\n OR,\n THE BOOK OF ANCIENT POETRY,\n TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH VERSE,\n WITH ESSAYS AND NOTES.\n By\n JAMES LEGGE, D.D., LL.D.,\n PROFESSOR OF CHINESE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,\n FORMERLY OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n LONDON:\n TR\u00dcBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL.\n [1876]\n \n \u00a0\n \n Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare, August 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was originally published prior to 1923. The Shanghai edition contains all of the poetry verbatim from the 1876 edition, which has much additional apparatus not included here. The Chinese text is also omitted in this etext for technical reasons.\n \n \n \n Next: Preface","title":"The Book of Poetry: Title Page","type":"page"}