楚辭

The poems of Qu Yuan and those who wrote in his manner, gathered in the Han from the southern state of Chu. Where the Classic of Poetry is terse, these are long, perfumed and visionary, full of shamans, fragrant herbs and journeys through the sky. Together the two books are the twin springs of Chinese verse.

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