Gāo Shì 高適 (700–765)
Zì Dáfū 達夫. Bóhǎi 渤海 Tiào 蓨 (modern Jǐngzhōu 景州, Héběi) by jùnwàng; resident much of his life in Sòngzhōu 宋州 Liángyuán 梁園 (modern Shāngqiū 商丘 in eastern Hénán). Late office zuǒ sǎnqí chángshì 左散騎常侍 (“Left Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary”), whence Gāo Chángshì 高常侍.
The principal frontier-poet (biānsài shī rén 邊塞詩人) of the High Táng generation, conventionally paired with Cén Cān 岑參 岑參 as the GāoCén couplet of the biānsài school. Unlike most major Tang poets, Gāo combined a successful literary career with a successful military-administrative one: after a long apprenticeship as a poor yóuxiá literatus in the LiángSòng country (the basis of his early friendship with Lǐ Bái 李白 and Dù Fǔ 杜甫 — the three travelled together in 744), he served on the Héběi and Liángzhōu 涼州 frontiers in the late Kāiyuán / early Tiānbǎo (the basis of his frontier verse), then rose rapidly during the An Lùshān rebellion: jiānchá yùshǐ 監察御史 in 756; Yángzhōu dàdūdūfǔ chángshǐ 揚州大都督府長史 and Huáinán jiédùshǐ 淮南節度使 in 760; Pǔzhōu cìshǐ 蒲州刺史 in 762; Jiànnán xīchuān jiédùshǐ 劍南西川節度使 in 763 (succeeding Yán Wǔ 嚴武); and the zuǒ sǎnqí chángshì honorific in his last year. He died at Chángān in Yǒngtài 1 (765), aged 65.
His Yān gē xíng 燕歌行 (“Song of Yān”), composed in 738 on a frontier defeat at the Tánzǐ kǒu 檀子口, is the most famous biānsài narrative of the High Táng and a foundational text of the genre. His extant collection is the Gāo Chángshì jí KR4c0023 in 10 juǎn, transmitted via a Sòng Qìngyuán (1195+) print witness.
CBDB confirms 700–765 (cbdbId 30851); the catalog meta’s “d. 765” is consistent.