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  Ye Xie                         (Wade-Giles name: Yeh Hsieh)
YE XIE (1627-1703)

Literary critic, writer and scientist Ye Xie passed the Imperial Exam during the Ganxie Reign, but later was deprived of his official title for offending his superiors. He is better known for his comments on poetry than for his own poems, and his work of literary criticism, titled Sources of Poetry, is of the highest order, and celebrates the moral possibilities in poetry and the exact and detailed nature of poetic observation.
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Starting Out from Shao Brook

A traveler's heart is like water and water is like sorrow.
Quickly and easily my returning boat rides a fast torrent.
Surprised at hearing my dialect through the porthole
I see my hometown mountain moon hanging over the boat's prow.

        ---Translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping


 

 
     
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