唐代诗人孟郊的英文简介

MENG JIAO (MENG CHIAO) (751-814)

Meng Jiao came from Huzhou-Wukang (present-day Deqing County, Zhejiang province) and was the oldest and among the best of the circle of writers who gathered around the great prose master Han Yu in the last decade of the eighth century. He met Han Yu in Changan in 791, but though Han Yu passed the Imperial Examinations in 792, Meng Jiao failed, as he did again in 793. He finally passed in 796 but did not receive a position for four years, and even then it was a humiliatingly insignificant post in the provinces. He even lost this post within a few years and settled in Luoyang, where he lived for the rest of his life dependent on patrons and friends. His personal life was one of tragedy and loss: his three sons died young, and he lost his wife as well. Around five hundred of his poems survive, most of them in the old style form of poetry (gu shi). Though Meng Jiao was popular enough in his own time, his reputation went into a tailspin some centuries after his death, because of his brash, disturbing, and jarring verse, which seemed to lack grace and decorum. In fact, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that his verse has inspired not so much neglect as active hatred, even in such distinguished readers as Su Shi, who states baldly in his two poems On Reading Meng Jiao's Poetry that [he] hate[s] Meng Jiao's poems, which sound to him like a cold cicada wail:

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