Mastodawn

This copy of The Nine Songs was the only way to read it in 2005. I just found a few articles and a pdf on Forgotten Books. I drafted the Wiki in '07.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180525-the-book-of-songs-poems-that-helped-shape-chinese-thought

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40511

The Book of Songs: Poems that helped shape Chinese thought

A collection of ‘folk poems’ said to have been picked up from alleys and fields around China, The Book of Songs also functioned as satire and moral instruction, writes Martin Kern.