Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (白居易) (772 - 846) was one of those famous Tang poets. Likely influenced by Han Yu's movement for the language, he wished to come back to a simple and direct poetry. He inspired from folk songs. It is said that he kept only those poems that his housemaid understood.
Sample poem:
- Grasses
- Boundless grasses over the plain
- Come and go with every season;
- Wildfire never quite consumes them
- They are tall once more in the spring wind.
- Sweet they press on the old high- road
- And reach the crumbling city-gate....
- O Prince of Friends, you are gone again....
- I hear them sighing after you.
- Tr. Witter Bynner, cf. [1]
http://www.chinese-poems.com/bo.html
http://www.philmultic.com/pipa/pipa_song.html
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Chinese writer | List of China-related topics 123-L | List of Chinese authors | Liu Zongyuan
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