李太白集 (Collected Works of Li Bai)

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Li Bai (701-762 CE) is the most celebrated poet in Chinese literary history — the 'Immortal Poet' whose verse combines Daoist freedom, exuberant celebration of wine and friendship, and imagery of extraordinary beauty. His poems on the moon, on exile, on the impermanence of pleasure, and on the vastness of nature have been read, memorized, and loved for thirteen centuries. The original Chinese reveals a formal mastery that translations can only approximate; for Chinese-speaking groups, reading the originals aloud reveals their full musical and semantic richness.