Xu Zhimo.
1. "The Collection of Tigers" is a book published by Crescent Bookstore in August 1931. The author is Xu Zhimo. The collection of poems contains 34 poems by Xu Zhimo and 7 translated poems.
2. Xu Zhimo (January 15, 1897 - November 19, 1931) was born in Zhejiang. His real name was Zhang Qu [xù], his courtesy name was 槱[yǒu]sen, and his small character was Youshen. He has used many pen names, such as Xianhe, Nanhu, Haigu, Huanggou, etc. A native of Haining, Zhejiang Province, he is a representative of the Crescent Poetry School, a famous poet, essayist, a member of the Jingxing Society, and one of the main organizers of the Crescent Society. He graduated from Hangzhou No. 1 Middle School in 1915, was admitted to Shanghai Hujiang University, and successively transferred to Tianjin Beiyang University Law Preparatory Course and Peking University Law School. In 1919, he went to the United States to study in the History Department of Clark University and graduated early, and also won the first-class honorary award. In September of the following year, he received a master's degree in economics from Columbia University in New York. He gave up the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in order to follow Russell at Cambridge University in England, but failed to do so. In the spring of 1921, he entered Royal College, Cambridge University as a special student, became interested in literature and began to write new poems. In March 1923, Xu Zhimo organized and established the Crescent Society. In the following years, he successively served as professor at Peking University, editor-in-chief of "Morning Post Supplement", professor at Shanghai Guanghua University, professor at Soochow University Law School, professor at Shanghai Daxia University, editor at Zhonghua Book Company, and professor at Nanjing Central University, and then successively Resign. In February 1931, Xu Zhimo was invited by Hu Shi to serve as a professor in the English Department of Peking University and concurrently as a professor at Beijing Women's University. On November 19, 1931, while taking the "Jinan" postal plane from Nanjing to Beijing, the plane crashed and Xu Zhimo was killed. He was 35 years old. Representative works include "Farewell Cambridge" and "A Night in the Emerald Green". Xu Zhimo followed the theory of the three beauties of poetry, and made unique creations on this basis, changing the composition and sentence patterns, maintaining the form of poetry, and being free from restraint and flexible in style, which promoted the development of new poetry. At the same time, the major issue of "transplanting the sonnet and making it Chinese" was put forward, which effectively promoted the construction of new poetry.