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 Gāo-Cén 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 Liáng-Sòng 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.