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Du Fu (Chinese: 杜 甫; Wade–Giles: Tu Fu; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets. [1] .
Du Fu was a Chinese poet, considered by many literary critics to be the greatest of all time. Born into a scholarly family, Du Fu received a traditional Confucian education but failed in the imperial examinations of 735.
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Du Fu (杜甫,712-770) was a famoius Realist poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty Era (618-907). That era is generally thought to be the era of the best ancient poetry. The poems were simple and about common topics people experience and can relate to.
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Criticism of Du Fu's works has focused on his strong sense of history, his moral engagement, and his technical excellence.
In his lifetime, and immediately following his death, Du Fu was not greatly appreciated. In part this can be attributed to his stylistic and formal innovations, some of which are still "considered extremely daring and bizarre by Chinese critics" (Hawkes, 4). There are few contemporary references to him—only eleven poems from six writers—and these d...
There have been a number of notable translations of Du Fu’s work into English. The translators have each had to contend with the same problems of bringing out the formal constraints of the original without sounding labored to the western ear (particularly when translating lǜshi), and of dealing with the allusions contained particularly in the later...
Ch'en Wen-hua. T'ang Sung tzu-liao k'ao.Chou, Eva Shan. (1995). Reconsidering Tu Fu: Literary Greatness and Cultural Context. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521440394Cooper, Arthur (trans.). (1986). Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0140442723Hawkes, David. (1967). A Little Primer of Tu Fu. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9627255025- 杜甫
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Also known as Tu Fu, Du Fu is considered with Li Po to be one of China’s greatest poets of the Tang dynasty. Du Fu was born to a minor scholar-official in Henan Province. His mother died while he was young, and an aunt helped raised him.
Du Fu (712–770) was a prominent Chinese poet who wrote about the sorrow and war of his troubled times. He is one of the greatest classical Chinese poets, along with Li Bai, and his poems reflect his Confucian morality and his love of nature.
BBC documentary. Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and...
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