Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern Korean Songs and Poems : : An Historical Anthology, With Parallel Texts in Korean and English / / ed. by Sung-il Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Lee, Sung-il,
• MitwirkendeR: Literature Translation Institute of Korea,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR --; INTRODUCTION --; Part I Ancient Songs and Poems: Kayo, Hyang-ga, and Secular Songs --; Part II Kasa: Long Poems in the Vein of Prose --; Part III Shijo: Occasional and Impromptu Poems --; COMMENTARIES AND NOTES --; INDEX OF WORKS --; INDEX OF AUTHORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781802701340; 9783111023748; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319186; 9783111318264
• DOI: 10.1515/9781802701340?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sung-il Lee.

This historical anthology of Korean poetry, Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern Korean Songs and Poems highlights the evolution of poetic composition in the vernacular. The book is a manifesto of the uniquely Korean poetic tradition, which flourished quite separately along with the literary tradition retained by the men of letters devoted to the scholarship in classical Chinese. The beauty of the Korean language and the tradition of verse-making in it are sumptuously demonstrated by this book, which contains both the original texts in the unique Korean orthography of phonograms and the translator’s English version that runs in parallel with the original poems.