Poets of the Mid-Tang Dynasty include: Liu Zongyuan, Meng Jiao, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Lu Lun, Li He, Li Yi, Liu Yuxi, Jia Dao, Zhang Ji, Wei Yingwu, Li Kunyuan, Zhen Zhang Hu, Du Qiuniang, Zhang Ji , Dai Shulun, Gu Kuang.
Bai Juyi (772-846), a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had the courtesy name Letian and the name Xiangshan Jushi. His ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. In his later years, he served as an official to the crown prince Shaofu. Representative poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Play", etc.
Liu Zongyuan (AD 773-AD 819), courtesy name Zihou, was a Han nationality from Hedong (now Yongji, Yuncheng, Shanxi). He was one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, a writer, philosopher, and poet in the Tang Dynasty. The essayist and thinker was known as "Liu Hedong" and "Mr. Hedong" in the world. Because he died as governor of Liuzhou, he was also called "Liu Liuzhou". His representative poems include "Living in the Brook", "Snow on the River", "The Fisherman", "Ode on Punishment", "Record of Little Rock Pond", "Ode on Return of Dreams", "Ode on Prisoner Mountain", etc.