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Qu Dajun
Qu Dajun (屈大均, 1630–1696) was a Chinese poet, scholar, and Ming loyalist from Panyu, Guangdong, the leading poet of the Three Great Masters of Lingnan.
Ruan Yu
Ruan Yu (阮瑀, c. 165–212) was a Chinese writer of the late Eastern Han, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an, known for letters drafted for Cao Cao.
Sadula
Sadula (萨都剌, c. 1272–1355) was a Yuan dynasty poet, painter, and calligrapher of Semu descent, best known for his graceful verse and the collection Yanmen Ji.
Shen Yixiu
Shen Yixiu (沈宜修, courtesy name Wanjun, 1590–1635) was a late Ming Chinese poet and anthology editor from Wujiang, Suzhou, remembered as the Ming's Li Qingzhao.
Shi Runzhang
Shi Runzhang (施闰章) was a Qing dynasty poet and official from Xuancheng, Anhui, paired with Song Wan as 'Nan Shi Bei Song' and one of the six dynasty poets.
Song Luo
Song Luo (宋荦), courtesy name Mu Zhong, was a Qing dynasty official, poet, and art collector who served as governor of Jiangsu and Minister of Personnel.
Song Wan
Song Wan (宋琬, 1614–1673) was a Chinese poet and official from Laiyang, Shandong, in the early Qing dynasty, paired with Shi Runzhang as "Southern Shi, Northern Song".
Song Xiang
Song Xiang (宋湘), 1756 or 1757 to 1826, was a Qing dynasty Hakka poet, calligrapher, and official from Jiaying, Guangdong, honored as the "First Scholar of Lingnan."
Sun Chuo
Sun Chuo (孫綽, courtesy name Xinggong, 314–371) was an Eastern Jin dynasty scholar-official, writer, and calligrapher, the leading representative of the xuanyan school of metaphysical poetry.
Wang Bao
Wang Bao (王褒), or Ziyuan (子渊), was a Western Han fu poet from Sichuan. He is renowned for the Dongxiao Fu, the first fully preserved musical-instrument fu.
Wang Duanshu
Wang Duanshu (王端淑) was a Chinese poet, painter, critic, and anthologist of the Ming–Qing transition, known for compiling one of the largest pre-modern anthologies of women's poetry.
Wang Fanzhi
Wang Fanzhi (王梵志) is the name attached to a corpus of about 390 plain, vernacular five-character poems of the Tang dynasty, preserved mainly in Dunhuang manuscripts.
Wang Pan
Wang Pan (王磐, c. 1470 to c. 1530) was a Ming dynasty sanqu poet, painter, and physician from Gaoyou, Jiangsu, known for the satirical song Chao Tianzi: On the Trumpet.
Wang Pengyun
Wang Pengyun (王鵬運, 1848 or 1849 – 1904) was a Qing dynasty ci poet and official from Lingui, Guangxi, remembered as the leading late-Qing ci master.
Wang Yisun
Wang Yisun (王沂孫) was a Chinese ci poet of the late Southern Song and early Yuan, known for object-chanting poems lamenting the fallen Song dynasty.
Wei Yingwu
Wei Yingwu (韦应物, c. 737 – c. 791), known as Wei Suzhou, was a Tang dynasty official and poet famed for tranquil landscape and pastoral verse.
Wu Wenying
Wu Wenying (c. 1200–c. 1260) was a Southern Song dynasty ci poet from Ningbo, Zhejiang, known for a dense, ornate style and about 340 surviving song lyrics.
Xia Wanchun
Xia Wanchun (夏完淳, 1631–1647) was a Chinese poet of the late Ming dynasty, a child prodigy who joined the anti-Qing resistance at fourteen and was executed at sixteen in Nanjing.
Xu Can
Xu Can (徐灿, courtesy name Xiangpin, ca. 1610–1678) was a Chinese woman ci poet and painter of the late Ming and early Qing often compared with Li Qingzhao.
Xu Hun
Xu Hun (courtesy name Yonghui) was a late Tang dynasty poet and official from Danyang, Jiangsu, best known for his seven-character regulated verse and its water imagery.
Xu Wei
Xu Wei (徐渭), courtesy name Wenchang, was a Chinese writer, painter, calligrapher, and dramatist of the Ming dynasty, known for pioneering the ink large-freehand style of painting.
Yan Jidao
Yan Jidao (晏几道, ca. 1038–1110) was a Northern Song dynasty ci poet, son of the chancellor Yan Shu, known for the short lyrics of his Xiaoshan ci.
Ye Xie
Ye Xie (葉燮, 1627–1703) was a Chinese poet, official, and literary critic of the early Qing dynasty, best known for Yuan Shi, a systematic treatise on poetics.
Yi Shunding
Yi Shunding (易順鼎; 1858–1920) was a Chinese poet and late Qing official from Hunan, known with Fan Zengxiang as a leading poet of the mid- and late-Tang school.
Ying Yang
Ying Yang (Yìng Yáng), courtesy name Delian, was a poet of the late Eastern Han dynasty and one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an; he died in 217.
You Tong
You Tong (尤侗, 1618–1704) was a Chinese poet, playwright, and official of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, whose plays are collected as the Xitang Yuefu.
Yuan Kai
Yuan Kai (袁凯) was a Chinese poet and official of the late Yuan and early Ming periods, nicknamed Yuan Baiyan for his poem on the white swallow.
Zhang Ji (poet)
Zhang Ji (張籍), courtesy name Wenchang, was a mid-Tang dynasty poet from Hezhou, Anhui, best known for plain-language yuefu ballads depicting social conditions; paired with Wang Jian, he influenced the New Yuefu movement.
Zhang Kejiu
Zhang Kejiu (张可久, c. 1270–1348 or later) was a Yuan dynasty sanqu poet, native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, whose 855 surviving songs are the largest corpus of the era and led the 'clear and elegant' school.
Zhang Wentao
Zhang Wentao (张问陶; 1764–1814), sobriquet Chuanshan, was a Chinese poet and poetic theorist of the mid-Qing dynasty, a leading xingling school figure and called the foremost Qing poet of Sichuan.