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May 14, 2018 · Po Chü-i (772-846) was a Chinese poet best known for his ballads and satirical poems. He held the view that good poetry should be readily understood by the common people and exemplified it in poems noted for simple diction, natural style, and social content.
Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; Chinese: 白居易; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces.
Po-Chu-i – David Hinton. He inhabited everyday experience at the level where a simple heart is a full heart and a simple mind is an empty mind, endowing thoughts never twisty with new depths.
Jun 21, 2023 · The selected poems of Po Chü-I. by. Bai, Juyi, 772-846. Publication date. 1999. Topics. Bai, Juyi, 772-846 -- Translations into English. Publisher. New York : New Directions Pub. Corp.
Jun 7, 2023 · Po Chü-i : selected poems. by. Bai, Juyi, 772-846. Publication date. 2000. Topics. Bai, Juyi, 772-846 -- Translations into English. Publisher. New York : Columbia University Press.
Po Chü-i (772-846 C.E.) is the quintessential Chinese poet. For although clear thought and depth of wisdom deeply informs the work of all major ancient poets (as opposed to the complexity and virtuosity often valued in the West), Po makes clarity itself his particular vision.
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This anthology of 128 poems and a short prose piece by Po Chü-i offers valuable insight into the work and ideas of the T’ang bard. To date, more than 2,800 poems have been attributed to Po, leaving translators with a substantial selection from which to present a choice personal image of the man.
