孟浩然 Meng Haoran 7th-century - 740

Meng Haoran (Chinese: 孟浩然; Wade–Giles: Meng Hao-jan; Japanese: Mōkōnen) (689/691–740) was a major Tang dynasty poet, and a somewhat older contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu. Despite his brief pursuit of an official career, Meng Haoran mainly lived in and wrote about the area in which he was born and raised, in what is now Hubei province, China. Meng Haoran was a major influence on other contemporary and subsequent poets of the High Tang era because of his focus on nature as a main topic for poetry. Meng Haoran was also prominently featured in the Qing dynasty (and subsequently frequently republished) poetry anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, having the fifth largest number of his poems included, for a total of fifteen, exceeded only by Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and Li Shangyin. These poems of Meng Haoran were available in the English translations by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kanghu, by 1920, with the publication of The Jade Mountain. The Three Hundred Tang Poems also has two poems by Li Bai addressed to Meng Haoran, one in his praise and one written in farewell on the occasion of their parting company. Meng Haoran was also influential to Japanese poetry.
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Texts:

• Read A Message from Lake Dongtin to Premier Zhang
• Read A Night-mooring on the Jiande River
• Read A Spring Morning
• Read At a Banquet in the House of the Taoist Priest Mei
• Read At the Mountain-lodge of the Buddhist Priest Ye Waiting in Vain for my Friend Ding
• Read From Qin Country to the Buddhist Priest Yuan
• Read From a Mooring on the Tonglu to a Friend in Yangzhou
• Read In Summer at the South Pavilion Thinking of Xing
• Read Memories in Early Winter
• Read On Climbing Orchid Mountain in the Autumn to Zhang
• Read On Climbing Yan Mountain with Friends
• Read On Returning at the Year's End to Zhongnan Mountain
• Read Returning at Night to Lumen Mountain
• Read Stopping at a Friend's Farm-house
• Read Taking Leave of Wang Wei