Du Fu wrote a poem defending the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, saying their writing would flow on for ever like the great rivers.
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The order 王杨卢骆 was fixed early, and not everyone liked it: 杨炯 is said to have answered 愧在卢前，耻居王后, 'I am embarrassed to stand before Lu and ashamed to stand behind Wang'.
