The T'ang poets

• The T'ang Poets :

  Li Po

  Tu Fu

  Wang Wei
• Li Po - taoist, drawing sustenance from nature and his poetry was often other-wordly and ecstatic
• Tu Fu - confucian moralist, realist and humanitarian

  Public-spirited, his poetry helped chronicle the history of the age : the deterioration
• Wang Wei - is known for the pictorial quality of his poetry