Wei Suzhou

…In his youth, he served Emperor Xuanzong as a guard officer, but after the An Lushan Rebellion, he devoted himself to reading during his wandering life. He became the governor of Suzhou (Jiangsu Province) and was called Wei Suzhou. He wrote some excellent poems reminiscing about his youth, but his true talents are in works expressing the sentiments of leisure, and he belongs to the lineage of pastoral and mountain forest poets, succeeding Wang Wei and Meng Haoran. …

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…青年時代は近衛士官として玄宗に仕えたが，安禄山の乱後，放浪生活のなかで読書に励んだ。蘇州(江蘇省)の刺史となったので韋蘇州と呼ばれる。青年時代を回想した詩にも佳作はあるが，本領を発揮するのは，閑適の幽情をのべた作品であり，王維･孟浩然を継承し，田園山林詩人の系譜に属する。…

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