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Quyuan Qu Yuan (34O-278 BC) was the first great patriotic poet in the history of Chinese literature ......
Tao Yuanming Tao Yuanming (AD 365-427), also known as Tao Qian, is a famous landscape poet. He had been a minor official for several years during his youth ......
Libai Li Bai (AD 7O1 -762), the most outstanding poet at the height of the Tang Dynasty, is one of the great romantic poets after Qu Yuan. He was later called the "poetic genius." ......
Du Fu The poems of Du Fu (AD 712-77o), the exemplary realist poet inthe history of Chinese literature, mirror the social outlook of the onceprosperous Tang Dynasty in decline ......
Bai Juyi Bai Juyi(AD 772-846) was another outstanding realist poet after DuFu. He was the most prolific poet among Tang Dynasty poets ......
Wang Wei and Meg Haoran's Landscape Poetry Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were both skilled at depicting naturalscenery in five-character lines ......
Gao Shi and Cen Shen Gao Shi and Cen Shen, both veterans of military service, excelled atwriting seven-character line verse ......
Li Shangyin The poems of Li Shangyin (AD 813-858) further build on the artistictraditions of Chinese classical poetry .......
Su Shi The poems and lyrics of Su Shi (1037-1101) were of a virile timbreand an unrestrained spirit ......
Liu Yong Liu Yong (c. 987-1053) was the first poet to devote himself totallyto the writing of lyrics in the Northern Song Dynasty ......
Li Qingzhao A remarkable woman poet of the Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao (1084-1155) made great achievements in prose as well as poetry, but most ofall in the field of lyrics ......
Lu You The extant works of Lu You (1125-1210) include more than 9,300 poems, covering almost all aspects of sociallife in the early Southern Song Dynasty ......
Xin Qiji Xin Qiji (1140-1207) wrote more than 600 lyrics, which werecollected in jiaxuan's Lyrics ......
