Li Bai was a Chinese poet praised from his own day to the present as a romantic figuretook traditional poetic forms to new heights. Thirty-four of his poems are included in Three Hundred Tang Poems. (he) early poetry took place in the “golden age” of Tang dynasty. This all changed suddenly when all of northern China(destroy) by war. Fortunately, many of his poems(survive) ever since, enjoying lasting popularity in China and elsewhere.
