This man described moon and lantern light provoking "the splash of jumping fish" in "Overflowing." Two of his later poems respectively describe people coming helping him after he falls off his horse drunk and note "it's the greatest timber that's hardest to put to use." One of his early poems asserts that it's better to have girls than boys because the latter are "merely buried amid the grass." Many of his middle-period p
This man described moon and lantern light provoking "the splash of jumping fish" in "Overflowing." Two of his later poems respectively describe people coming helping him after he falls off his horse drunk and note "it's the greatest timber that's hardest to put to use." One of his early poems asserts that it's better to have girls than boys because the latter are "merely buried amid the grass." Many of his middle-period poems are devoted to his thatched hut, while many other works of this friend of Abbot Zan are lushi, like his two "Poems on a Bend in the River" and three "Sighs of Autumn." For 10 points, name this author of "Ballad of the Ancient Cypress" and "Song of the Wagons," a Confucian T'ang poet.
This man described moon and lantern light provoking "the splash of jumping fish" in "Overflowing."
{Du Fu} [accept {reasonably close pronunciations} like Do {Fu}, {Tu Fu}, etc.]