Meng Haoran [689- 740] was associated with Wang Wei, and was himself one of the greatest poets of the High Tang.
Catalog
Parting From Wang Wei
Seeing Off Du Shisi South of the River
Spending the Night on Jiande River
Spring Dawn
Thinking of Xin in South Pavilion on a Summer's Day
Thoughts in Early Winter
To Buddhist Priest Yuan From Chang'an
To My Old Friend in Yangzhou From a Boat Moored at Night on the Tonglu River
To Zhang, Climbing Orchid Mountain on an Autumn Day
Visiting An Old Friend On His Farm
Waiting for Ding
Meng Haoran's Resume
Meng Haoran (689-740)
Meng Haoran ( pinyin: Mèng Hàorán; Wade-Giles: Meng Hao-jan ) (689 – 740, during the Tang Dynasty) was one of the major practitioners of Tang poetry. Despite his brief pursuit of an official career, he mainly lived in and wrote about the area in which he was born and raised, in what is now the province of Hubei, China. Meng Haoran was a major influence on certain other contemporary and subsequent poets of the High Tang era because of his focus on nature as a main topic for poetry. Meng Haoran was also prominently featured in the Qing Dynasty (and subsequently frequently republished) poetry anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, having the fifth largest number of his poems included, for a total of fifteen, exceeded only by Du Fu, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Li Shangyin. The Three Hundred Tang Poems also has two poems by Li Bo addressed to Meng Haoran, one in his praise and one written in farewell on the occasion of their parting company. Meng Haoran was also influential and inspirational to Japanese poetry.