Asian Topics on Asia for Educators || The Book of Songs: "The Great Preface" and Five Notions about Poetry

THE BOOK OF SONGS:
"THE GREAT PREFACE"
AND FIVE NOTIONS ABOUT POETRY
Fourth Notion: The Poet's Morality

Robert Oxnam :: Fourth, it was assumed that poetry reveals the poet's moral fiber.

Paul Rouzer :: And a great deal of criticism, traditional criticism of poetry in China, has been involved with the moral critiques of individual poets. The reading of good or bad moral qualities through the reading of the poem.

** The Book of Songs is also known as the Book of Poetry, the Classic of Poetry, and sometimes the Book of Odes. These are all possible translations of the Chinese title, Shi jing [Shih-ching in Wade-Giles romanization].