韦应物

Wei Yingwu was a poet of the Tang dynasty. Publicly available sources provide only limited information about his life, including his birth and death dates and native place, so no conjecture is offered here. The library contains 12 of his works, commonly classified under ancient poetry and culture. Representative titles include Er Huangjing, Sending Off Fang of Hangzhou, Waiting for a Guest on the Terrace, To Cui Yuanwai, Sending Yuan Cangcao Back to Guangling, The Mountain Hermit, and Thinking of My Old Home in the South Garden in Early Summer. These titles suggest themes of farewell and poetic exchange, mountain retreats and Daoist reclusion, and seasonal reflections; his lines often move from the scenery before him to thoughts of friends and his old home, with plain language and deep feeling. Wei Yingwu is known for a clear, leisurely and distant style that gave him a distinct place in Tang poetry and influenced later landscape, pastoral and lyric verse. Given the limited materials in the library, details of his life and the dating of his works require further study.