Li Yu

Li Yü 

(also known as Li Houchu and Li Ch’ung-kuang). Born 937; died Aug. 15, 978. Chinese poet and last emperor (961–976) of the Southern T’ang dynasty.

Li Yü was a master of tz’u, the short lyric romance. The best of them—such as “The Beauty Yü,” “I Watch the Roses on the Shore,” and “Night Cry of the Raven”—were composed in exile, after he lost the throne. Li Yü’s primarily intimate poetry combines the simplicity of the folk song with keen similes and poetic parallels.

WORKS

Li Ching Li Yü tz’u. Peking, 1958.
In Russian translation:
In Antologiia kitaiskoi poezii, vol. 3. Moscow, 1957.