吴潜
宋
Wu Qian, courtesy name Yifu and literary name Lüzhai, was a Southern Song poet and statesman from Ningguo in Xuanzhou. He rose to the position of Left Chancellor and was deeply involved in late Southern Song politics, with a career marked by both prominence and difficulty. His ci poetry combines bold political feeling with graceful, restrained lyricism. Some of his works express concern for the state, while others are delicate poems of landscape, weather, late spring, travel, and inward emotion. 'Nan Ke Zi · The Pond Water Has Settled into Fresh Green' shows his refined and understated lyrical side.