Zhang Jie (章碣) was a Late Tang poet, active around the year 877. He was particularly noted for his use of experimental metre.Jerry Dean Schmidt, Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798) (Routledge, 2003), p. 240. He is now best known for "The Book-Burning Pit" (or "Pit of Burning Books"), a poem which alludes to how the First Emperor of China's destruction of books and scholars did nothing to prevent his dynasty's overthrow by illiterate rebels.
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