- ISBN: 9780415612715 | 0415612713
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 5/12/2011
First published in 1949. This book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Ch -I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time. The volume also provides new translations in whole or in part of about a hundred poems by Po Ch -i.