Poems Poems - Penguin Classics Author:Li Po, Tu Fu, Arthur Cooper (Translator) Li Po (A.D. 701-62) and Tu Fu (A.D. 712-70) were friends who are traditionally regarded as the greatest poets of China. — Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet who is unsurpassed in the scope of his fanciful imagination and who soars to sublime heights in his descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. He has been called ... more »39;the immortal of poets'.
Tu Fu is a more popular poet. His experiences of civil war imbue his work with great compassion and earthly reality, shot through with humour and desolation, as he views everyday life with an artist's insight.
Together, these two poets of the T'ang dynasty cover the whole spectrum of human life and feeling, and are often appropriately referred to as one poet, "Li-Tu".
The introduction by Arthur Cooper chronicles the lives and times of Li Po and Tu Fu, and sets the spiritual, social and aesthetic background to the translations, which are works of poetry in their own right.« less
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