Li Bo resumed his wandering after parting with Du Fu, spending time in Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces. In 756, unwittingly entangled in political strife, he accepted a summons from a rebellious prince.

Li Bo is frequently compared to the European Romantics, whose lyric poetry and emphasis on the individual would seem to parallel his, and yet, for all that he did to promote his public image, his ...

Li Bo used terms found in a textual tradition running back to the ancient holy book, the Yijing (eighth to third century b.c.e.; English translation, 1876; also known as Book of Changes, 1986 ...

Li Bo and his younger contemporary Du Fu (Tu Fu) rank as the two greatest poets in the three thousand years of Chinese literary history. Each has the reputation, and the merit, of William ...

In Li Bo’s case, he alludes to a tale by T’ao Ch’ien (also called T’ao Yüan-ming) entitled “The Peach Blossom Spring.” The story describes how a fisherman, following the trail along a ...

In approximately 743, Li Bo served as a court poet (in effect a courtier) in the capital Ch’ang-an. Because of the scheming, the favoritism, and above all, the demoralizing intrigues that are ...

SOURCE: “Immediacy and Allusion in the Poetry of Li Bo,” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 52, No. 1, June, 1992, pp. 225-61. [In the following essay, Varsano contends that Li Po's ...

Dive deep into Li Po's Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion ... “Immediacy and Allusion in the Poetry of Li Bo,” in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic ...

Ezra Pound’s adaptation of a poem by Li Bo, an eighth century Chinese poet, is a dramatic monologue spoken by a sixteen-year-old girl. It is written in open verse in the form of a letter from ...

In contrast to Li Bo, who followed the Daoist philosophy of withdrawal from the world, Du Fu was very much a poet of everyday life, both in his response to nature and the physical world and in his ...