Du Fu
Du Fu

Du Fu (Chinese: 杜甫; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician of the Tang dynasty. Along with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. He has been called the "Poet-Historian" and the "Poet-Sage" by Chinese critics, while the range of his work has allowed him to be introduced to Western readers as "the Chinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire".

Du Fu Famous Poems

    • ○ A Drawing of a Horse by General Cao at Secretary Wei Feng's House (韦讽录事宅观曹将军画马图)
      "Seven-character-ancient-verseThis poem was composed in 767 AD (the second year of the Dali era of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty), during Du Fu's stay at his thatched cottage in Chengdu. Through the depiction of Cao Ba's painting Nine H…"
    • ○ Seeing Li Bai in A Dream II (梦李白·其二)
      "Five-character-ancient-verse"
    • ○ Seeing Li Bai in A Dream I (梦李白·其一)
      "Five-character-ancient-verse"
    • ○ Alone in Her Beauty (佳人)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseMany families were devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion including Du Fu’s. He lost a son to famine and fled from the north with his wife and children, caught up in the turmoil that took millions of lives. Eventu…"
    • ○ To My Retired Friend Wei (赠卫八处士)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseThis poem was one of Du Fu's later worksThis poem was composed in the spring of 759 CE, the second year of the Qianyuan era under Emperor Suzong of the Tang dynasty, during Du Fu's journey from Luoyang back to his…"
    • ○ A View of Taishan (望岳)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseThe whole poem is unified by the word “look” in the title of the poem, and every line is about looking at the mountain, but there is not a single word “look” in the whole poem, and it gives people a sense of b…"
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