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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 (born 712, Gongxian, Henan province, China—died 770, on a riverboat between Danzhou [now Changsha] and Yueyang, Hunan province) 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.
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, the greatest poet of a country devoted to poetry, believed himself a failure. He gained little distinction in the official examinations, but remained a minor civil servant uprooted by the An Lu-shan rebellion that destroyed the first T'ang dynasty. He was usually poor, and occasionally close to starvation.
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.
Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.
Jul 10, 2022 · Du Fu’s place as one of China’s greatest—if not the greatest—poets is beyond argument. His astonishing mastery of a broad range of styles, emotions, and poetic topics not only stands out in the history of Chinese poetry but has also shaped its development.
Du Fu (712-770 AD) is regarded by many Chinese as their greatest poet. He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang...
Apr 12, 2016 · Ten years in the making, and comprising six volumes and 3,000 pages, The Poetry of Du Fu is the latest published work of Conant University Professor Stephen Owen. Owen’s earlier, monumentally ambitious work—translating an entire anthology of representative Chinese literature by himself, in the 1990s—was described in “ Anthologizing as a ...
Tu Fu, also called Du Fu, was a major Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was born in the year 712 in Gongxian, China, and received a traditional Confucian education, although he twice failed the imperial examinations necessary to become a civil servant.
