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Chinese & Japanese

Su Tung-p’o

1036–1101

Su Tung-p’o (Su Shi, 1036–1101) was one of the foremost poets of the Sung dynasty. Waley includes his well-known humorous quatrain written on the birth of a son.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s version in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

Poems (9)

  1. On the Birth of his Son
  2. Spring Nights
  3. Whigs and Tories
  4. Dreaming at Golden Hill
  5. At the Kuang-Li Pavilion
  6. Farewell to Chao Tâ-Lin
  7. On the River at Hui-Ch’ung
  8. Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat
  9. Night on the Lake

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