Tu Mu

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Tu Mu

 

Born 803, in Sian; died 853. Chinese poet.

Tu Mu, the son of an official, was influenced by the literature of Tu Fu. He created the models for verse lampoons, love lyrics (“At Parting”), nature sketches (“A Stroll in the Mountains” and “Autumn Evening”), and rhythmic prose. The didactic “Song of the Afang Palace,” in which Tu Mu allegorically foretells the death of the monarch as a result of his lack of concern for his subjects, is of particular interest. Tu Mu’s poems (for example, “My Anguish”) often contain pessimistic motifs. His work, in terms of perfection of form, ranks among the major achievements of T’ang poetry.

WORKS

Tu Mu Shih hsuan. Peking, 1957.
In Russian translation:
InAntologiia kitaiskoi poezii, [vol.] 2. Moscow, 1957.

REFERENCES

Chingkuo wenhsueh shih, vol. 1. Peking, 1959.
Tang shih yenchiu lunwen chi. Peking, 1959.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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