Sports Literature and Tang Poems

Abstract

Overviewing human’s history of literature, we could see the bud of sports literature in ancient Greek’s myths and the beginning of it in Homer’s Epic and China’s ancient poems collection The book of Songs. In the revival of modern Olympic Games, Coubertin’s Ode to the Sports shows vivid description of sports images and events from aesthetic perspective. The author made a comprehensive retrieve towards 42,863 poems in The Whole Collection of Tang Poetry and offered people a new perspective to appreciate sports and literature.