李绅

Li Shen was a Tang dynasty poet whose biography and official career are known only from limited public sources; his birth and death years, native place, and English name are not recorded in our database. The database holds three of his works: Moving to Jiujiang, Twenty Poems on the New Tower: The Orange Grove, and To Wang Xingzhou, Sent as I Approach Xiling, commonly classified as ancient-style poetry. Judging from these titles, his writing centers on travel stages, local scenery, and poems sent to friends, conveying feeling through concrete scenes in a concise language that shows the disciplined manner of Tang regulated verse. The twenty-poem sequence on the new tower dwells on details of towers and gardens, while the poems addressed to friends reveal sincere affection in his social circle. Because source material is scarce, his full life and poetic style await further documentation; the above summary rests only on the works held in the database.