T'AO 365 - 427 Chinese Poet T'ao Ch'ien, also known as T'ao Yuan-ming, was a recluse in a farming village on the Yangtze River and one of China's foremost poet's in the five-word shih style, with great influence on subsequent poets.
His poetry was not fully
appreciated in his time, because in contrast to the
elaborate style of his period, his poetry is simple with
a minimum of words.
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