"Probably China's greatest descriptive poet."
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Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1936), p. 247
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Wang Wei
Wang Wei (Chinese: 王維; 699–759) was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman. He was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time. Many of his poems are preserved, and twenty-nine were included in the highly influential 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
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