Author:Tao Yuanming

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Tao Yuanming (365–427)

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Tao Qian (simplified Chinese: 陶潜; traditional Chinese: 陶潛; pinyin: Táo Qián; Wade–Giles: T'ao Ch'ien) (365–427), better known as Tao Yuanming (traditional Chinese: 陶淵明; simplified Chinese: 陶渊明; pinyin: Táo​ Yuān​míng; Wade-Giles: T'ao Yüan-ming), was a Chinese poet. Born in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi, he was one of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty (618–907) Chinese poets.

Tao Yuanming

Works

The Peach Blossom Spring
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The Peach-blossom Fountain

Arthur Waley versions

Translations from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919) by Arthur Waley.

• Shady, shady the wood in front of the Hall
• In the quiet of the morning I heard a knock at my door
• A long time ago
• Substance, Shadow, and Spirit
• Chill and harsh the year draws to its close
• Blaming Sons [an apology for his own drunkenness]
• I built my hut in a zone of human habitation
• Moving House
• Returning to the Fields
• Reading the Book of Hills and Seas
• Flood
• New Corn