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Mid Tang|c. 737–792|also Wei Ying-wu

Life

Wei Yingwu was a palace guard in his youth who later became a thoughtful provincial governor. His landscape poems, often linked with those of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, are calm, clear and gently melancholy.

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