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Chinese & Japanese

Han Yü

AD 768–824

Han Yü (AD 768–824) was one of the great prose writers and poets of the T’ang dynasty, a champion of Confucian teaching who was banished from court for protesting against the veneration of a Buddhist relic.

The poems here are Herbert A. Giles’s versions in Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898), given with the poet’s name as spelled in that book.

Poems (11)

  1. The Wounded Falcon
  2. Hours of Idleness
  3. In Camp
  4. Meditations
  5. Discontent
  6. Humanity
  7. Disappointment
  8. Mountain-Stones
  9. On the Festival of the Moon, to Sub-Official Chang
  10. Stopping at a Temple on Heng Mountain, I Inscribe This Poem in the Gate-Tower
  11. A Poem on the Stone Drums

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