Yüan Chēn

Yüan Chēn (AD 779–831) was the close friend of the poet Po Chü-i. He is also the author of the prose tale “The Story of Ts’ui Ying-ying,” which is not included here. Waley’s translation of his dream-poem “The Pitcher” appears in More Translations from the Chinese.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s version in More Translations from the Chinese (1919), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.