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Li He ( c. 790–791 – c. 816–817) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui . He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a naming taboo.
Li He was a brilliant Chinese poet who showed great promise until his untimely death at age 26. Literary legend describes Li He as a man of guicai (“devilish talent”) who composed his haunting verses by jotting down single lines on small slips of paper while on horseback, dropping the slips into an.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 19, 2023 · This volume presents close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other technical matters.
- Robert Ashmore
- June 19, 2023
Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang Dynasty. A Song dynasty critic once described Li He’s poetry as written in the “language of a demonic immortal” and filled with hallucinatory evocations of goddesses, beautiful courtesans, Buddhist visions, drunken nights, and corruption.
Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view Li He as the emblematic cursed poet, whose lyrical fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with ...
Li He was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui.
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The Short Biography of Li He (traditional Chinese: 李賀小傳; simplified Chinese: 李贺小传; pinyin: lǐ hè xiǎo chuán) is the earliest surviving record of the life of the Chinese poet Li He (c. 790 – c. 816). It was compiled by the poet Li Shangyin.
