![]() ![]() The Three Hundred Tang Poems also has two poems by Li Bo addressed to Meng Haoran, one in his praise and one written in farewell on the occasion of their parting company. ![]() These poems of Meng Haoran were available in the English translations by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kanghu, by 1920, with the publication of The Jade Mountain. Meng Haoran was also prominently featured in the Qing Dynasty (and subsequently frequently republished) poetry anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, having the fifth largest number of his poems included, for a total of fifteen, exceeded only by Du Fu, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Li Shangyin. Meng Haoran was a major influence on other contemporary and subsequent poets of the High Tang era because of his focus on nature as a main topic for poetry. ![]() Despite his brief pursuit of an official career, Meng Haoran mainly lived in and wrote about the area in which he was born and raised, in what is now the province of Hubei, China. Meng Haoran (Chinese: 孟浩然 pinyin: Mèng Hàorán Wade–Giles : Meng Hao-jan Japanese: Mōkōnen) (689 or 691 – 740, during the Tang Dynasty) was a major Tang Dynasty poet, and a somewhat older contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bo and Du Fu. Poems were written mainly in Chinese language. Meng Haoran poet from China was born in 689, had 51 years and died in 740. ![]()
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