Cáo Yè 曹鄴 (zì Yèzhī 鄴之), of Yángshuò 陽朔 (modern Guǎngxī, on the Lí river). Jìnshì of Dàzhōng period (likely 850, after several failed attempts). His career — held back by his late success — produced verse of yuànlǎo jiēbēi (regret-of-aging, lament-of-low-station) tone, well-represented in the Sì yuàn sān chóu wǔ qíng poem-set that Wéi Què 韋穀 (in the Cáidiào jí) singled out.
His later career: Tiānpíng jiédù zhǎngshūjì → Tàicháng bóshì (where he debated the posthumous title for Gāo Jǔ; the polemic recorded in Xīn Tángshū Gāo Yuányù zhuàn) → Cíbù lángzhōng (Director of the Bureau of Sacrifices, hence the title Cáo Cíbù) → Lìbù yuánwàiláng (per Zhèng Gǔ’s Yúntái biān) → ended as Yángzhōu cìshǐ. Cáo was reckoned a noteworthy figure by Zhāng Wèi’s Zhǔkè tú.
Principal work in the corpus: Cáo Cíbù jí KR4c0085 in 2 juǎn (jointly published in the Míng Jiǎng Miǎn edition with Cáo Táng 曹唐 as fellow Yuèxī poets). CBDB id 94473 has no dates.