Poets

Reading guides for the poets on this desk. Each page is a life in outline and a way into the poems we have annotated.

Bai Juyi 白居易 772–846 Cen Shen 岑參 c. 715–770 Chen Zi’ang 陳子昂 661–702 Du Fu 杜甫 712–770 Du Mu 杜牧 803–852 Gao Shi 高適 c. 704–765 Han Yu 韓愈 768–824 He Zhizhang 賀知章 659–744 Jia Dao 賈島 779–843 Li Bai 李白 701–762 Li Qingzhao 李清照 1084–c. 1150s Li Shangyin 李商隱 c. 813–858