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
1 live poem · Mandarin Chinese
Du Fu, born in 712 and dead by the end of 770, stands among the most deeply admired poets in the Chinese language and among the great literary witnesses of world history. He lived through the glittering late flowering and violent fracture of the Tang dynasty, an age remembered for imperial splendor, cosmopolitan confidence, artistic achievement, civil war, famine, displacement, and political decline. His poems preser…
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Ancient & Classical Poets, Chinese Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Classical Chinese Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing