Sòng Luò 宋犖 (1634–1713), zì Mùzhòng 牧仲, hào Màntáng 漫堂, Xīpí 西陂 (“Western Bank”), and early-life Miánjīnshānrén 綿津山人 (“Cotton-Ford Mountain-Recluse”). Of Shāngqiū 商邱 (Hénán). CBDB id 34134; lifedates firm.
Eldest son of 宋權 Sòng Quán (1598–1652), the early-Qīng grand secretary who served both the late Míng and the Qīng (an èrchén). Sòng Luò entered office through rènzǐ (hereditary recommendation) rather than the examinations and rose steadily: prefect, àncháshǐ, governor of Jiāngsū, Lǐbù shàngshū (Minister of Personnel) — by Kāngxī 47 (1708) the senior official in the eastern Yangzi region. He famously served as Jiāngsū governor at the height of 王士禛 Wáng Shìzhēn’s prominence and patronized many leading Kāngxī-era literary figures: in his term as Sūzhōu Governor he commissioned the WángSòng èr jiā jí 王宋二家集 — combining his and Wáng Shìzhēn’s poetry — edited by Shào Chánghéng 邵長蘅 of Chángzhōu. Sòng Luò was therefore one of the most important late-Kāngxī poetic patrons: his Sūzhōu salon brought together 陳維崧, 朱彝尊, 尤侗, and many others; his Húběi Hóngqiáo literary gatherings continued 王士禛’s earlier Yángzhōu pattern.
His main literary works include the Xīpí lèigǎo 西陂類稿 (KR4f0035) — the curated 39-juan late-life recension drawing on 25 separately-printed sub-collections — and the Cānglàng xiǎo zhì 滄浪小志 (his Sūzhōu Cānglàngtíng monograph). His re-editing of Shī Yuánzhī 施元之’s commentary on Sū Shì poetry at Sūzhōu — recovering a damaged copy through expensive purchase and bringing it back to print — preserved a foundational Song-Yuan-Ming SūShì exegetical tradition that would otherwise have been lost.