Wei Yingwu

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wéi.

Wei Yingwu (traditional Chinese: 韋應物; simplified Chinese: 韦应物; pinyin: Wéi Yìngwù; Wade–Giles: Wei Ying-wu; 737–792) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Twelve of Wei's poems have been included in the Three Hundred Tang Poems anthology.

Poetry

Wei Yingwu poems collected in Three Hundred Tang Poems were translated by Witter Bynner as:

"Entertaining Literary Men in my Official Residence on a Rainy Day"
"Setting Sail on the Yangzi to Secretary Yuan"
"A Poem to a Taoist Hermit Chuanjiao Mountain"
"On Meeting my Friend Feng Zhu in the Capital"
"Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District"
"East of the Town"
"To my Daughter on Her Marriage Into the Yang Family"
"A Greeting on the Huai River to my Old Friends from Liangchuan"
"A Farewell in the Evening Rain to Li Cao"
"To my Friends Li Dan and Yuanxi"
"An Autumn Night Message to Qiu"
"At Chuzhou on the Western Stream"

Biography

According to John C. H. Wu, the turbulence and lack of strong central leadership of China during Wei Yingwu's poetry-writing years was a major influencing factor upon his work. One example of such sociopolitical turmoil is the An Shi Rebellion of 755-763. Wu suggests that images such as the boat moving without a person steering in "At Chuzhou on the Western Stream" is a reference to the ship of state without a person at the helm.^[1]

Translations

Wei Yingwu was translated by Red Pine (Bill Porter) as In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), for which he won the Best Translated Book Award, from the book translation press of the University of Rochester; and the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)'s inaugural Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2010.

Notes

↑ Wu, 162

References

Wu, John C. H. (1972). The Four Seasons of Tang Poetry. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E.Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-8048-0197-3

External links

Works by or about Wei Yingwu at Internet Archive
Works by Wei Yingwu at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Chinese poetry

Major eras	Classical Chinese poetry Modern Chinese poetry

Poetry by dynasty	Han poetry Jian'an poetry Six Dynasties poetry Tang poetry Song poetry Yuan poetry Ming poetry Qing poetry

Poetry works and collections	Classic of Poetry Chu Ci New Songs from the Jade Terrace Nineteen Old Poems Quan Tangshi Three Hundred Tang Poems Wangchuan ji Wen Xuan Zhuying ji

Major forms	ci fu shi qu yuefu

Individual poems list	Chinese poems (category list) List of poems (article)

Modern compilations	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

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