Approximately 1,100 of his poems remain today. Li Po is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the 'Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup' in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. Li Bai (Li Pai Chinese: 李白 pinyin: Lǐ Bái Wade–Giles: Li Pai), also known as Li Bo (or Li Po pinyin: Lǐ Bó Wade–Giles: Li Po) was a Chinese poet. The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Po's works by a Herbert Allen Giles Date of Birth: ca. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.Date of Birth: ca. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. He wrote 1,200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: 'Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.' He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem not so much spiritual influences as the inborn form of his life. Li Po (AD 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West.

The selected poems of li po