Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Poet

Yan Yanzhi 顏延之

Attested AD 424 - AD 453

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yan Yanzhi was a Poet.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 424 to AD 453 顏延之
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 89

Assessments and attributes

Assessment ranks beneath Pan Yue and Lu Ji · 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 · 1 passage

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."