Kevin O'Rourke
A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo: The Pine River Songs...
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A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Somo The Pine River Songs is translation of Songgang kasa, Chong Chols (15361593) famous collection ofKorean songs. The translations are by Kevin ORourke, one of the foremost translators of Korean literature into English in the world today. Professor ORourke includes in the volume a biographical sketch of the Choson dynasty poetofficial and a crifica1 analysis of his work. These essays provide a fascinating background to the life and work of this enigmatic man.Royal Inspector (governor of a province, personal secretary to the king, second minister general of the army these are some of the positions held by Chong Chol during a career that was punctuated by periods of voluntary retirement, dismissal and exile. He was by nature a brilliant but rather stubborn man. Loved by his friends, hated py his enemies, his life was marked by continuous controversy. Korean commentators traditionally regard Chong Chol as the greatest exponent of the essaypoem genre called kasa his kasa were immensely popular in his own lifetime and they consistently place him among the great shijo poets. Readers of A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo The Pine River Songs will be struck by the literary quality of the shijo, which are without peer in the history of the genre, and by the urbanity and cultiva1ion of the Kasa poems. These poems come alive for the first time in English versions that stand on their own as English poems.
Binding: Paperback;106 pages; Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales); Classification: DCF; Weight: 573 g; Dimensions: 234 x 156
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A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Somo The Pine River Songs is translation of Songgang kasa, Chong Chols (15361593) famous collection ofKorean songs. The translations are by Kevin ORourke, one of the foremost translators of Korean literature into English in the world today. Professor ORourke includes in the volume a biographical sketch of the Choson dynasty poetofficial and a crifica1 analysis of his work. These essays provide a fascinating background to the life and work of this enigmatic man.Royal Inspector (governor of a province, personal secretary to the king, second minister general of the army these are some of the positions held by Chong Chol during a career that was punctuated by periods of voluntary retirement, dismissal and exile. He was by nature a brilliant but rather stubborn man. Loved by his friends, hated py his enemies, his life was marked by continuous controversy. Korean commentators traditionally regard Chong Chol as the greatest exponent of the essaypoem genre called kasa his kasa were immensely popular in his own lifetime and they consistently place him among the great shijo poets. Readers of A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo The Pine River Songs will be struck by the literary quality of the shijo, which are without peer in the history of the genre, and by the urbanity and cultiva1ion of the Kasa poems. These poems come alive for the first time in English versions that stand on their own as English poems.
Binding: Paperback;106 pages; Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales); Classification: DCF; Weight: 573 g; Dimensions: 234 x 156
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