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Li Bai

Websites
Actually a more general site, devoted to Asian poetry and poetic forms.
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THE LI PO SOCIETY OF AMERICA  America is a cultural association dedicated to bridging East and West, now in its twelfth year. Here's a list of some of our publications: The Moon a bilingual Chinese poetry anthology for beginning students) Mountain of Interbeing zen poems by...
http://www.levity.com/interbeing/lipo.html

English translations, including some by Ezra Pound.
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Poetry/Li_Po/

Articles on the writer's style and brief analysis of Drinking Alone Under the Moon.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp...x.html?topic=LiBo+subtopic=Intro

English translations of selected works.
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Poetry Reading China the Beautiful  I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among...
http://www.chinapage.com/libai/libai2e.html

Profile and eight translations, with GB texts.
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Li Po  Li Po This page includes both English and Chinese versions. All Chinese texts are in GB code About the poet Drinking Alone with the Moon A Farewell to Secretary Shu-yun at the Hsieh Tiao Villa in Hsuan-Chou The Hard Road...
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~yangzw/libai.html

Chinese and English texts of twenty works.
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Li Bai Index  Fu as one of the two leading figures of Chinese poetry. He was a Byronic figure, whose life as well as his verse embodied the Romantic cliches of freedom, spontaneity and defiance of convention. Each poem indexed below appears in...
http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb.html

Presentation by Hideaki Hirano of the original Chinese texts and translations by Kenneth Hope of four poems by the author.
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Li Bo 2  English translation of the piece. The person from abroad was kind enough to teach him that Ezra Pound's was the one. They exchanged opinions and to his great surprise and pleasure, the sender of the e-mail was found to be...
http://www.lian.com/HIRANO/favor/li_bo02.htm

Introduction to The River Merchant's Wife, with traditional Chinese and Japanese texts in graphical format.
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LI BO  These are from a work of the legendary Tang poet, Li Bo (b.701-d.762 AD; sometimes written as Li Bai; in Japan known as Li Haku The lines (from left to right) read somewhat like this While I was as little...
http://www.lian.com/HIRANO/favor/li_bo.htm

Hamil's translation of the work, with commentary on the poem and both poets.
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[minstrels] About Tu Fu Li Po  Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [microfaq] This week's theme: the Silk Road. About Tu Fu I met Tu Fu on a mountaintop in August when the sun was hot. Under the shade of his big...
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/504.html

Twenty translations by Hamil and Pound.
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Poetry/Li_Po/

Biography of the poet, plus Chinese texts of selected works.
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The story of Li Bai ¤O¤h u¡B¶Q¦m·r°s  Direct all commentsand questionstoKevin LeeSite designed andmaintained byKevin LeeAll rights reserved1998 2005Last updated:Sept 29, 2002 Li Bai¤O¤h u¡B¶Q¦m·r°s Home Chow Der Lee Zhao Diaspora Forum The period 713-756AD was when the Tang Dynasty reached its zenith. It was also China's...
http://www.legacy1.net/lee_ba.html

Introduction and English texts from The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse.
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Translated Chinese Poetry: Poems by Li Po  Fu are regarded as the two greatest poets of the greatest period of Shih poetry. Li left his home at Ch'ang-ming, Szechwan, about 720, and for twenty years wandered from place to place, occasionally seeking official employment but not through...
http://www.lingshidao.net/hanshi/libai.htm