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The Poet Li Po
Bai Li and Arthur Waley
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Serious literary criticism has been dead in China since that time, and the valuations then made are still accepted.
Like Miss Havisham’s clock, which stopped at twenty to nine on her wedding-day, the clock of Chinese esteem stopped at Li Po centuries ago, and has stuck there ever since.
But I venture to surmise that if a dozen representative English poets could read Chinese poetry in the original, they would none of them give either the first or second place to Li Po.
XXXI. 25.LIFE OF LI PO, FROM THE “NEW HISTORY OF THE T’ANG DYNASTY,” COMPOSED IN THE ELEVEN. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
‘Where are the snows of yester year?’ This is a famous line from the poet Francois Villon a Frenchman of the Middle Ages. Li Po, a Chinese from the eight century got there first. His poems capture that sense of time slipping away even as joy, romance and friendship flourish.
He was a court poet who e
This was so lovely
The simplicity of Li Po’s imagery and ruminations on life, loss, nature, and more is a love or hate sort of thing. There is no middle ground.
Older translation
If you choose to buy this book on kindle you're probably doing so for its brevity and low price. Just be warned, this is a translation from the 1910s so the poems don't land as well as newer translations (although most are still good) and the poems aren't given sufficient context in
Some of the most romantic and humorous poetry I've known. Li Bai was romantic alcoholic that loved women and life. A must for anyone wanting to learn about this era during the Tang dynasty.
Excellent Chinese poetry.. beautiful, short, and sweet. Definitely worth checking out if you have even the smallest interest.
A good read for students or anyone who wants to go back many many years before poetry became a “big deal”. Li Po shares the highs and lows of life and love in a variety of short and long poems mostly ending his poems in some form of an epiphany. Worth the read but it gets monotonous towards the end