高启

Gao Qi was a celebrated poet of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Public information about his life and native place is limited, and his surviving works are represented by the Collected Works of Gao Qi. His poems, often included in anthologies of classical verse, cover a wide range of subjects, from landscapes and rural life to reflections on turmoil and separation. His style is fresh and elegant, drawing on the strengths of Han-Wei and Tang-Song masters, with polished language and deep artistic conception. He enjoyed a high reputation in the early Ming poetic world and is often regarded by later critics as an important founding figure of Ming poetry, exercising considerable influence on the poetic style of the early Ming. Given the limited sources, details of his life remain unclear, but readers may come to know his poetry and artistic achievement through the Collected Works of Gao Qi.