Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Poet

Xie Lingyun 謝靈運

Attested AD 422 - AD 433

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xie Lingyun was a Poet.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 422 to AD 433 謝靈運
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 88

Assessments and attributes

Assessment unrestrained; pieces lack clear beginning and end · Mode speech Speaker the founding emperor (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 89

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 16: Gao Zu's Twelve Princes · 2 passages

曄剛穎俊出，工弈棋，與諸王共作短句，詩學謝靈運體，以呈上，報曰：「見汝二十字，諸兒作中最為優者。 Ye was sharp and outstanding, skilled at chess; with his brothers he wrote short verses in Xie Lingyun's style and presented them; the emperor replied: "In your twenty characters this is the best of the boys' work.

但康樂放蕩，作體不辨有首尾，安仁、士衡深可宗尚，顏延之抑其次也。」 Yet Lingyun is unrestrained — his pieces lack clear beginning and end; Pan Yue and Lu Ji are truly worth emulating; Yan Yanzhi ranks beneath them."