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 …

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 ...

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 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, …

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 ...

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 …

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 ...

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 ...

In Li Bo’s short poem “Question and Answer in the Mountain,” the speaker does not describe the mountain in great detail.His focus is more on how he feels on the mountain and how the …

Lines 3–4. Emphasizing his solitude, the speaker raises his cup in a toast to the moon. Among T’ang Dynasty poets, especially Li Po, the moon held special importance, symbolizing the …