王粲诗选
Selected Poems of Wang Can

王粲，字仲宣，出身名门。他先是寄身荆州刘表门下，后归顺曹操，并在其府中任丞相掾、军谋祭酒及侍中等职。建安二十一年（216年）他跟随曹操东征孙吴，次年因瘟疫殁于途中。他是七子中最为多产的诗人。

Wang Can (177—217), courtesy name Zhongxuan, came from a renowned family of the time. He f irst sought patronage under Liu Biao at Jingzhou, but later came to join Cao Cao’s court, where he served as Chancellor’s Clerk, Army Libationer, and Court Attendant. In the twenty-f irst year of the Jian’an (216), he accompanied Cao Cao on the military campaign against the Wu Kingdom in the south, and next year died of a plague on the road. He is the most prolif ic poet of the Seven Masters of the Jian’an era.