Selected Masterpieces by Bai Juyi

Download or read book Selected Masterpieces by Bai Juyi written by Lanjing Zhou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bai Juyi (772-846), a great poet of the Tang Dynasty of China, is a famous and very influential writer in Chinese literary history. Called the King of Poetry, his writing is realistic, on a wide variety of topics, and simple and "down-to-earth". Here are five of what many consider to be his masterpieces, in a fresh English translation, and accompanied by the original Chinese. Their titles are: Song of Eternal Regret, Journey of the Lute, The Charcoal Seller, Farewell at the Grasslands, and On Seeing Wheat Harvesters.