biography
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Bo Juyi
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also spelled Po Chü-i
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pronunciation:
[boe jooyee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (772–846)
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| biography:
| Poet, government official, and governor of Hangzhou, born in Hsingcheng, Shensi Province, NE China. He was known in his lifetime even in Japan and Korea, and was probably the first poet to be printed (c.810). His 3840 pieces of vernacular poetry and prose afford valuable insight into the daily life of Tang period scholar-gentry. Song of Unending Sorrow, on the Xuanzong and Yang Guifei love-tragedy, is one of the world's finest tragic poems. |
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