1 live poem · Mandarin Chinese
Li Bai, also known as Li Bo, was born in 701 and died in 762, during the high and later Tang dynasty, the period most often celebrated as the great classical age of Chinese poetry. Few literary figures have become so inseparable from the imaginative idea of poetry itself. In China he is commonly called the “Immortal Poet,” and the phrase is more than a compliment to technical skill. It conveys the sense that his vers…
“Heaven and earth are the travellers’ inn of the myriad things; time is the passer-by of a hundred generations.”
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Classical & Ancient Poets, Classical Chinese Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
Ch’ŏyong, also romanized as Cheoyong, occupies an unusual place in Korean literary history: he is at once a poet, a legendary prince, a ritual guardian, a dancer, an image on a gate, and a figure whose historical identity cannot be separated from the story that made him famous. He is conventionally placed in the late ninth century, perhaps c. 800–c. 900, though neither a reliable birth date nor a death date is known.…
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Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Classical Chinese Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Anger, Sorrow
