170 Chinese Poems

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese poetry.
Includes Waley's interpretations of poems originally by Altun, Fu Hsüan, Ch`U Yüan, Ch'¿n Tz¿-Ang, Ch'¿ng-Kung Sui, Ch'ien W¿n-Ti, Ch'in Chia, Ch'ü Yüan, Chan Fang-Sh¿ng, Chang Tsai, Chi K'ang, Hsieh T'iao, Hsü Ling, Li Fu-J¿n, Li Po, Liu Hsün's Wife, Lu Yu, Lu Yün, Miu Hsi, Ou-Yang Hsiu, Pao Chao, Po Chü-I, Po Hsing-Chien, Su Tung-P'o, Sung Yü, T'ao Ch'ien, Tao-Yün, Ts'ao Chih, Ts'ao Sung, Tsang Chih, Tso Ss¿, Tz¿-Yeh, Wang Chi, Wang Chien, Wang Wei, Wei W¿n-Ti, Wu-Ti, Yüan Chen, Yüan Chieh, &Yüan-Ti