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600 BC

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Fiction · Lyric poetry

The Book of Songs

Author unknown
600 BC · 400 pages

Three hundred and five songs from ancient China about courtship, harvest, soldiers on campaign, and bad government. Confucius taught from them, and every Chinese poet since has written with them in earshot.

★ 7.2
Fiction · Lyric poetry

If Not, Winter

Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
600 BC · 416 pages

Western love poetry starts with Sappho, and starts at full pitch: the tongue breaks, thin fire runs under the skin. The poet Anne Carson brackets every gap where the papyrus tore.

★ 6.7