Bai Li 李白 (701 - 762)

Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái; Wade–Giles: Li Pai, 701 – 762), also known as Li Bo (Wade-Giles: Li Po; pinyin: Lǐ Bó), was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. Regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Tang Dynasty, often called China's "golden age" of classical Chinese poetry, Li Bai was both a prolific and a creative poet, as well as one who stretched the rules of versification of his time. Around a thousand extant poems are attributed to him today. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.