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Mei Yaochen (梅堯臣 Méi Yáochén) (1002–1060) was a Chinese poet of the Song dynasty. He was one of the pioneers of the "new subjective" style of poetry which characterized Song poetry.
Mei Yaochen was born in Xuancheng in present-day Anhui Province. His style name was 'Sheng Yu' (圣俞). He passed the jinshi exam in 1051 and had a career in the civil service, but was unsuccessful. He was a prolific poet, with around 3000 works extant; he was popularized as a poet by the younger Ouyang Xiu.
Most of his works are in the shi form, but they are much freer in content than those of the Tang dynasty. His response to the impossibility of surpassing the Tang poets was to make a virtue of his lack of ambition; his ideal was 平淡 (pingdan), or the pedestrian. His early verses are often socio-critical, advocating reform along Neo-Confucian lines; later he turned to celebrations of ordinary life and verses mourning the deaths of his first wife and several of his children.
An example is his poem translated into English by Kenneth Rexroth as "An Excuse for Not Returning the Visit of a Friend."
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百川書志 | 4 |
御定佩文齋書畫譜 | 2 |
御定淵鑑類函 | 2 |
萬姓統譜 | 2 |
宋元學案 | 2 |
大清一統志 | 2 |
玉臺畫史 | 1 |
宋元詩會 | 2 |
江南通志 | 2 |
宋史紀事本末 | 1 |
四庫全書總目提要 | 10 |
郡齋讀書志 | 8 |
文獻通考 | 8 |
堯山堂外紀 | 2 |
宋詩紀事 | 3 |
直齋書錄解題 | 2 |
能改齋漫錄 | 1 |
名賢氏族言行類稿 | 2 |
千頃堂書目 | 1 |
宋史 | 12 |
四庫全書簡明目錄 | 1 |
氏族大全 | 2 |
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