![]() ![]() There, he continued to explore the natural world where he lived. ![]() ![]() He married the daughter of the retired prime minister. In 727, Li Bai traveled to A-lu in Hubei. He spent his teenage years traveling all of Sichuan as a knight-errant. People tell the story that he fell from his boat when he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon, and therefore drowned in the Yangtze River.Īs Lai Bai grew up he developed his sword fighting skills. Li Bai is best known for the imagination and Taoist imagery in his poetry. The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Bai's works by a Herbert Allen Giles publication History of Chinese Literature (1901) and through the liberal, but poetically influential, translations of Japanese versions of his poems made by Ezra Pound. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang. Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. ![]() His fellow poet Du Fu counted him to the group of Chinese scholars that he called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem. Li Bai (also Li Bo or Li Po, Chinese: 李白 pinyin: Lǐ Bái / Lǐ Bó 701–762) was a Chinese poet. Suiye, Tang Empire (now Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan)ĭangtu, Tang Empire (now Ma'anshan, Anhui Province, China) Li Bai In Stroll, by Liang Kai (1140–1210) ![]()
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