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Description of  Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P ahan chip by Yi Illo (Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials)

0824897242 pdf Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of Pahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua remarks on poetry) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (11521220) during the mid-Kory dynasty (9181392). Pahan chip features poetry composed in Literary Chinese (the scriptura franca of the premodern East Asian Sinographic Sphere) by the author and his friends, which included such literary greats as Im Chun (dates unknown) and O Sejae (1133?). Pahan chip also contains the work of other writers of diverse backgrounds: Chinese master poets, famous Confucian literati, eminent Buddhist masters, erudite Daoist hermits, Kory kingsas well as long-forgotten lower-level officials, unemployed intellectuals, and rural scholars. The verse compositions are embedded in short narratives by Yi that provide context for the poems. In accordance with the guidelines of the Read more