# 170 Chinese Poems

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- Authors: [Arthur Waley](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-waley)
- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-00-9467-710-4
- Published: 1987-03-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This book ranges from the melancholy to the cheerful, and to poems full of nostalgia: they essentially deal with concrete, rather than abstract, conceptions. Poets included are Ch'u Yuan, writing in 300 BC, Mei Sheng and Fu I, and Po Chu-I who wrote in the ninth century.