Wáng Yáng 王洋 (1087–1153), zì Yuánbó 元渤, native of Shānyáng 山陽 (modern Huáiān 淮安, Jiāngsū). Placed second in the shěngshì (provincial examination); jiǎkē jìnshì of Xuānhé 6 (1124). Under Shàoxīng he rose to Qǐjū shèrén 起居舍人 (Imperial Diarist) and Zhīzhìgào 知制誥 (Imperial Drafter), with Zhí Huīyóugé 直徽猷閣 honour, serving as prefect of three commanderies. Sòng shǐ lacks his biography; a brief life is given in Zhōu Bìdà’s preface to his collection (preserved in WYG).
Hán Hù 韓淲 Jiànquán rìjì notes that Wáng’s residence in Xìnzhōu 信州 had a lotus-pond and water-trees; he styled himself Wáng Nánchí 王南池, naming his single-room reception-chamber Bànsēng liáo 半僧寮 (Half-monk Cottage). He lived in extreme poverty. The Jiāngxī tōngzhì records he resided as a guest in Shàngráo 上饒 and exchanged poems with Zēng Jǐ 曾幾 曾幾. Surely a “nándù qīngliú” (clear-current of the southward-crossing — i.e. a man of integrity in straitened times).
His collection is Dōngmóu jí 東牟集 KR4d0163 in 14 juǎn (Sìkù Yǒnglè dàdiǎn reconstruction; the Sòng shǐ Yìwénzhì records 29 juǎn — likely an error for the 30 juǎn of Zhōu Bìdà’s preface).
Catalog meta gives “d. 1153”; CBDB id 15443 supplies 1087–1153, followed here.