Song Zhiwen (c. 660–712), also known by his courtesy name of Yanqing, was a

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of the early Tang dynasty, although technically his poetic career was largely within the anomalous dynastic interregnum of

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. Together with

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, Song Zhiwen is considered to have the "credit for the final perfection" of the "new style" poetry of

regulated verse Regulated verse – also known as Jintishi () – is a development within Classical Chinese poetry of the ''shi'' main formal type. Regulated verse is one of the most important of all Classical Chinese poetry types. Although often regarded as a Tang ...

(''jintishi'')Davis, ix which was one of the most critical poetic developments of the early Tang poets, and much followed as a style which inspired future generations of poets. He was ordered to commit suicide after Xuanzong came to the throne, ostensibly because of unwise involvement in the politics of the imperial succession.

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Song Zhiwen was particularly known for his five-character-regular-verse, or '' wujue'', one of which is included in the famous poetry anthology ''

Three Hundred Tang Poems The ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'' () is an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907). It was first compiled around 1763 by Sun Zhu (1722–1778Yu, 64–65), who was a Qing Dynasty scholar and was also known as Hengtang Tuishi ( ...

''. As an outstanding court poet in Early Tang dynasty, Song Zhiwen's poems are famous for his regulated verse which are regarded as '' lüshi'', including heptasyllabic songs. His early opuses focus on court life and imperially assigned poems. Later, he prefers to write landscapes and inner embitterment feelings due to exile. His most famous poems are "度大庾岭" (A.D.705) and "渡汉江" (Crossing the Han River, A.D.706). Actually, he rather creates court poems than other topics when he stays in the royal circle, while composing lyrics instead when he is banished from the capital.

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*Davis, A. R. (Albert Richard), Editor and Introduction, (1970), ''The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse''. (Baltimore: Penguin Books). *Stephen Owen, "The Poetry of Early T'ang",New York:Yale University Press, 1977

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Quan Tangshi (''Complete Tang Poems'') is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published under ...

'' that include collected poems of Song Zhiwen at the

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