* "A Feast of Lanterns", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916],
p. 63
Han Y
A.d. 768-824
One of the wittiest and most brilliant of the Tang statesmen and philosophers, Han Y's poetry has been overshadowed by his prose essays, which have been upheld as models of Chinese literature. He attempted to found a new school of Confucianism, being a bitter opponent of the Buddhist tendencies of his day, and was banished to a semi-barbarous region which he set to work to civilise. Su Tung-p'o, the great Sung poet, wrote a magnificent poem to his memory which has been translated by Professor Giles (cf. "Chinese Literature," p. 161).