Nguyễn Đình Chiểu

Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was born in 1822 in Gia Định, and passed the bachelor's examination in 1843. On his way to the examinations in the capital, he learned that his mother had died. He stopped to mourn her and lost his sight in 1849, not yet thirty; his betrothed's family then broke off the engagement. Back in the South, he opened a school and cared for the sick, having learned medicine from the man who had treated him. When France took Cochinchina, he withdrew to Ba Tri, wrote for the insurgents and to the end refused the occupier's offers. He died in 1888.

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• PoetryLục Vân TiênNguyễn Đình Chiểu · 1851not translated into EnglishLiterature