Du Fu
| Du Fu (杜甫) | |
|---|---|
Thare are na contemporaneous portraits o Du Fu;
this is a later airtist's impression. |
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| Born | 712 |
| Died | 770 (aged 59) |
| Occupation | Poet |
Du Fu (Wade-Giles: Tu Fu; Cheenese: 杜甫; pinyin: Dù Fǔ; 712–770) wis a prominent Cheenese poet o the Tang Dynasty. Alang wi Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently cried the greatest o the Cheenese poets.[1] His greatest ambeetion wis tae serve his kintra as a successful ceevil servant, but he proved unable tae mak the necessary accommodations. His life, lik the whole kintra, wis devastatit bi the An Lushan Rebellion o 755, an his last 15 years wur a time o almaist constant unrest.
Althou ineetially he was little-kent tae ither writers, his wirks came tae be hugely influential in baith Cheenese an Japanese leeterary cultur. O his poetic writin, nearly fifteen hundred poems hae been preserved ower the ages.[1] He haes been cried the "Poet-Historian" an the "Poet-Sage" bi Cheenese critics, while the range o his wirk haes allaeed him tae be introduced tae Wastren readers as "the Cheenese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire".[2]
