In composing his landscape poetry, Liou Tsong-yuan was considerably inspired by Tao Yuan-ming and Xie Ling-yun. Liou nevertheless has his own idiosyncratic style. This paper first analyzes the imagery in Liou’s poety, as compared and contrasted with that in Tao’s and Xie’s poetries. It then examines Liou’s methods of composing landscape poetry and the theme of feelings as manifested in his landscape poetry. First, when imagery was investigated in Liou’s, Tao’s, and Xie’s poetries, it was found that though some of Liou’s landscape poems convey image of plain ordinariness and loftiness, which was found also in Tao’s farm poetry, some of Liou’s poems actually convey a higher degree of loftiness and loneliness. Some of Liou’s landscape poems convey vivid images just like those found in Xie’s landscape poems. However, a sense of sadness was also found in Liou’s poems, a characteristic peculiar to Liou’s poems. Next, in terms of methods of poem composition, it was found that, though Liou mimics Tao’s expressive style, in many ways the two poets employ similar words at best. When Liou’s depiction of landscape was compared and contrasted with Xie’s, it was found that Liou employs a means of expression other than that commonly employed in the description of travels, landscapes, feelings, and deeper understandings of life in the world. Finally, in terms of the depiction of various manifestations of feelings, one finds that while Tao’s poems exhibit genuine self-contentedness, Xie’s poems convey a superficial tranquility derived from a deeper understanding of life in the face of setbacks. By contrast, liou’s poems manifest a combined sense of easiness and self-contentedness, loftiness and loneliness, a sudden insight into life, a temporary oblivion to worries in life, and a feeling of sadness projected onto the landscape.