Sung Chih-wen

Sung Chih-wen died in AD 710. According to Cranmer-Byng he was the son of a distinguished general who became involved in a palace intrigue, was banished and was finally put to death by order of the Emperor.

The poems here are L. Cranmer-Byng’s version in A Lute of Jade (1909), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.