* "A Feast of Lanterns", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916],
p. 65
Po Ch-i
A.d. 772-846
One of the greatest statesmen that China has produced. Po Ch-i comes nearer to our idea of a poet of the Romantic School than most Chinese writers. Yet even when he tells the story of the Emperor Ming Huang and the Lady Yang Kwei-fei--the one supreme love romance of China--he deals with issues that endure beyond the curtain-fall on tragedy. For him the final crisis is never attained. A wrong done has results beyond the reach of time. For a fuller account of this poet cf. "A Lute of Jade," p. 73.