Po Chü-i: Selected Poems

The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Chü-i (772–846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at large and made him a favorite with readers in Korea and Japan as well. From Po Chü-i's well-preserved corpus—personally compiled and arranged by the poet himself in an edition of seventy-five chapters—the esteemed translator Burton Watson has chosen 128 poems an...