Third, some “Eulogies of Zhou” are closely interrelated: they share entire lines or even couplets with one another but not with other poems, marking them as a single larger unit of text. Thus, of the thirty components of characters of “Year ofAbundance” (Mao 279 “Feng nian”), sixteen are verbatim identical to verses in “Clear Away the Grass” (Mao 290 “Zai shan”). At the same time, “Clear Away the Grass” also shares three more lines with “Good Ploughs” (Mao 291 “Liang si”), and additional individual lines with four other neighboring texts.20 One may, thus, think of the texts of the“Eulogies of Zhou” not as individually authored texts but as variations of material taken from a shared poetic repertoire.
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Re: 290. 載芟 - Zai Shan
Date: 2021-06-21 12:17 pm (UTC)https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mkern/files/the_formation_of_the_classic_of_poetry_0.pdf
Third, some “Eulogies of Zhou” are closely interrelated: they share entire lines or even couplets with one another but not with other poems, marking them as a single larger unit of text. Thus, of the thirty components of characters of “Year ofAbundance” (Mao 279 “Feng nian”), sixteen are verbatim identical to verses in “Clear Away the Grass” (Mao 290 “Zai shan”). At the same time, “Clear Away the Grass” also shares three more lines with “Good Ploughs” (Mao 291 “Liang si”), and additional individual lines with four other neighboring texts.20 One may, thus, think of the texts of the“Eulogies of Zhou” not as individually authored texts but as variations of material taken from a shared poetic repertoire.