WHO is Libai?
WHO is William Dolby(Bill)?
Born in AD 701 in Central Asia, Li Bai, whose name is also found transliterated as Li Pai, Li Bo, Li Po etc., is China's most famous poet of all times, and celebrated the wide world over. Many stories, poems and plays have developed his legend in China and Japan, and made him a major and familiar character of literature and drama. A bibulous, swashbuckling, generous personality, he is loved for the freedom that gales through much of his work, and for the ever-surprising freshness of his versification and of his treatment of topics. (William Dolby, Bruntsfield, 2004.)
William Dolby (Bill) (1936-2015), translator specialises in premodern Chinese literature. Our content is based on William’s translation collection of Chinese poet Li Po(701-762), Bring on The Wine.
WHO is Libai?
WHO is William Dolby(Bill)?
Born in AD 701 in Central Asia, Li Bai, whose name is also found transliterated as Li Pai, Li Bo, Li Po etc., is China's most famous poet of all times, and celebrated the wide world over. Many stories, poems and plays have developed his legend in China and Japan, and made him a major and familiar character of literature and drama. A bibulous, swashbuckling, generous personality, he is loved for the freedom that gales through much of his work, and for the ever-surprising freshness of his versification and of his treatment of topics. (William Dolby, Bruntsfield, 2004.)
William Dolby (Bill) (1936-2015), translator specialises in premodern Chinese literature. Our content is based on William’s translation collection of Chinese poet Li Po(701-762), Bring on The Wine.
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