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Ling Yue is an author about whom relatively limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be confirmed. Nevertheless, the five works held in the collection offer a general sense of his direction as a writer and editor. He focuses on foreign literature, especially the translation and selection of English-language poetry. His representative works include The Beauty of Dappled Things: Selected Poems of Hopkins, The Knowledge of Summer, Responsibility Begins with a Dream, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, and Howling Wilderness: Selected Poems of Emily Brontë. These works involve poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Stephen Crane, and Emily Brontë, showing Ling Yue's sustained engagement with poetry translation and anthology editing, and providing readable texts through which Chinese readers can approach the English poetic tradition. His works are commonly classified under literature and foreign literature, and his overall profile leans toward serious poetry translation rather than popular writing.