Unit 2 Poems Section Ⅰ Warming amp;Reading Pre-readingMeng Haoran (689 or 691-740, during the Tang Dynasty) was a major Tang Dynasty poet, and a somewhatolder contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu
He had a rather short civil service career, passing the JinshiCivil Service Test, beginning at the late age of 39 and ending not much later
He received his first and last position three years before his death, but resigned after less than a year
He lived in the Xiangyang area almost all his life (although he traveled to the major city of Chang'an, where he was entertained by Wang Wei in 728)
The landscape, history and legends of his home area were the subjects of many poems
Meng Haoran was a major influence on other contemporaryand following poets of the High Tang erabecause of his f