Poetry and Career of Li Po

<p>When this was originally published in 1950 this was the fullest biography of one of China’s greatest poets that had ever appeared in any language. It tells the story of the poet’s life against the background of contemporary history and in doing so gives a brilliant picture of Chinese life in the eighth century A.D. – during a period of the Tang Dynasty fertile in great poets such as Wang Wei Tu Fu and Mêng Haojan. </p>