![]() ![]() Another reason, identified by the Chinese historian William Hung, is that Chinese poems are typically extremely concise, omitting circumstantial factors which may be relevant, but which could be reconstructed by an informed contemporary. ![]() This becomes all the more important in the case of a writer such as Du Fu, in whose poems morality and history are so prominent. Traditionally, Chinese literary criticism has placed great emphasis on knowledge of the life of the author when interpreting a work, a practice which Watson attributes to "the close links that traditional Chinese thought posits between art and morality" (p. He has been called Poet-Historian and the Poet-Sage by Chinese critics, while the range of his work has allowed him to be introduced to Western readers as "the Chinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire". Initially unpopular, his works came to be hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese culture. His life, like the whole country, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and the last 15 years of his life were a time of almost constant unrest. His own greatest ambition was to help his country by becoming a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. Along with Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. ![]() ![]() There are no contemporaneous portraits of Du Fu this is a later artist's impressionĭu Fu or Tu Fu (712–770) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. ![]()
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