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Ancient poetry recommendations - preferably not Greek/Roman (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently finished the Epic of Gilgamesh, and I'm starting a collection of poems by Rumi.

I've previously read Cold Mountain by Han Shan.

Are there any other ancient poets/poems with published work that you'd recommend?

I'm looking for things that are:

Basically as old as possible
Poetic/mystic
Not Christian (or Western, Greek, or Roman).

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice! I should get a copy of the Tao Te Ching. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

After you read it, you might like this essay: https://redsails.org/maoist-and-daoist-dialectics/

It looks at the influence of Daoism and The Art of War on Mao's dialectics, and compares this eastern development of dialectics with the branch of dialectics that evolved in the west (eg Hegel, Lenin). (Though obviously these developments weren't fully independent.) It was a really helpful essay for me for understanding dialectics.