Wei Yingwu

Wei Yingwu (traditional Chinese: 韋應物; simplified Chinese: 韦应物; pinyin: Wéi Yìngwù; Wade–Giles: Wei Ying-wu; 737?–791?) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Twelve of Wei's poems were included in the influential Three Hundred Tang Poems anthology.

Biography

Wei Yingwu was born around 737.^[1]

According to John C. H. Wu, the turbulence and lack of strong central leadership of China during Wei Yingwu's poetry-writing years was a major influencing factor upon his work. One example of such sociopolitical turmoil is the An Shi Rebellion of 755-763. Wu suggests that images such as the boat moving without a person steering in "At Chuzhou on the Western Stream" is a reference to the ship of state without a person at the helm.^[2]

He died around 791.^[1]

Poetry

Wei Yingwu poems collected in Three Hundred Tang Poems were translated by Witter Bynner as:

"Entertaining Literary Men in my Official Residence on a Rainy Day"
"Setting Sail on the Yangzi to Secretary Yuan"
"A Poem to a Taoist Hermit Chuanjiao Mountain"
"On Meeting my Friend Feng Zhu in the Capital"
"Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District"
"East of the Town"
"To my Daughter on Her Marriage Into the Yang Family"
"A Greeting on the Huai River to my Old Friends from Liangchuan"
"A Farewell in the Evening Rain to Li Cao"
"To my Friends Li Dan and Yuanxi"
"An Autumn Night Message to Qiu"
"At Chuzhou on the Western Stream"

Translations

Wei Yingwu was translated by Red Pine (Bill Porter) as In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), for which he won the Best Translated Book Award, from the book translation press of the University of Rochester; and the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)'s inaugural Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2010.

Notes

1 2 Ueki et al. 1999, p. 106.
↑ Wu, 162

Works cited

Ueki, Hisayuki; Uno, Naoto; Matsubara, Akira (1999). "Shijin to Shi no Shōgai (I Ōbutsu)". In Matsuura, Tomohisa. Kanshi no Jiten 漢詩の事典 (in Japanese). 1. Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten. pp. 106–107. OCLC 41025662.

Wu, John C. H. (1972). The Four Seasons of Tang Poetry. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E.Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-8048-0197-3

External links

Works by or about Wei Yingwu at Internet Archive
Works by Wei Yingwu at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Books of the Quan Tangshi that include collected poems of Wu Yingwu at the Chinese Text Project:
- Book 186, Book 187, Book 188, Book 189, Book 190,

Book 191, Book 192, Book 193, Book 194, Book 195

Chinese poetry
Major eras	Classical Chinese poetry Modern Chinese poetry
Poetry by dynasty	Han poetry Jian'an poetry Six Dynasties poetry Tang poetry Song poetry Yuan poetry Ming poetry Qing poetry
Poetry works and collections	Classic of Poetry Chu Ci New Songs from the Jade Terrace Nineteen Old Poems Quan Tangshi Three Hundred Tang Poems Wangchuan ji Wen Xuan Zhuying ji
Major forms	ci fu shi qu yuefu
Individual poems list	Chinese poems (category list) List of poems (article)
Modern compilations	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

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