Du Fu

/ ˈduː ˈfuː /

noun

1. Du Fu712770MChineseWRITING: poet 712–770 ad , Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty

Example Sentences

Among the dead, well, some of the most extraordinary “nature writing” I know is by Celtic monks from the eighth and ninth centuries, or Tang Dynasty wanderer-poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu.

From New York Times

Du Fu, translated here by Stephen Owen, excelled in describing the human cost of the Tang dynasty’s imperial ambitions, the suffering of individual soldiers who protected the Silk Road and defended the country’s distant borders: “Already gone far from the moon of Han, / when shall we return from building the Wall? Drifting clouds journey on southward at dusk; / we can watch them, we cannot go along.”

From New York Times

“For a hundred li,” Du Fu wrote, “you can make out the smallest thing.”

From New York Times

To invest this elemental grammar with such feeling is to play a game, mastered by poets from Du Fu to Louise Glück, that reminds us that the contents of the world are finite, and that the imagination obtains, often, only in combination.

From The New Yorker

He rendered the poems of such classic Chinese writers as Su Tung-p’o, Po Chu-I and Du Fu and the Japanese poets Ryokan and Masaoka Shiki in a contemporary idiom informed by his wide reading in modern American poetry.

From New York Times