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
Third Notion: The Poet's Personality

Robert Oxnam :: Third, these commentators also maintained that a poet's personality is inscribed in a poem.

Paul Rouzer :: In other words, a poem is not merely just the individual single response of a poet to an event in history but also a clue to the poet's whole personality.

** 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].