White Village: Poems In Classical Chinese

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This book contains the poems in classical Chinese composed by Yi Byong-ho (1870?1943), born toward the end of the Choson Dynasty, the last monarchy in Korea, to live through the period of privation of her national sovereignty. Yi Byong-ho composed poems that reveal the undying spirit of poesy reasserting the beauty of life, despite the spiritual torpor that inevitably devastated the life of the whole nation during the darkest age in all Korean history. One of the last Korean poets who composed in classical Chinese before modern Korean poetry started resorting to the vernacular and the national orthography, han-gul, Yi Byong-ho was a poet who excelled in poetic composition in classical Chinese, not only in strict conformity to the classical Chinese poetic tradition, but with a strong touch of uniquely Korean sentiments. Sung-Il Lee, a scholar of English literature, has rendered his grandfather’s poems in classical Chinese into English. Though his field of study is far from the literary domain the original works belong to, he has overcome the linguistic chasm lying between classical Chinese and English, while attaining spiritual reunion with his grandfather.


  • | Author: Yi Byong-Ho
  • | Publisher: Resource Publications
  • | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 146 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1666770957
  • | ISBN-13: 9781666770957
Author:
Yi Byong-Ho
Publisher:
Resource Publications
Publication Date:
Apr 28, 2023
Number of pages:
146 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1666770957
ISBN-13:
9781666770957