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| | Bambooweb: Du Fu |
 | | For modern, western readers, therefore, "The less accurately we know the time, the place and the circumstances in the background, the more liable we are to imagine it incorrectly, and the result will be that we either misunderstand the poem or fail to understand it altogether" (p. |
 | | Luoyang, the region of his birthplace, was recovered by government forces in the winter of 762, and in the spring of 765 Du Fu and his family sailed down the Yangtze, apparently with the intention of making their way back there. |
 | | Du Fu's popularity grew to such an extent that it is as hard to quantify his influence as that of Shakespeare in England: it was hard for any Chinese poet not to be influenced by him. |
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