Tu Fu
Americannoun
noun
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Two of its most celebrated poets were Li Bo, who wrote about life’s pleasures, and Tu Fu, who praised orderliness and Confucian virtues.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Tu Fu also wrote critically about war and the hardships of soldiers.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Tu Fu was no man of affairs, and knew it.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)
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