A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo The Pine River Songs is
translation of Songgang kasa, Chong Ch'ol's (1536-1593) famous
collection of-Korean songs. The translations are by Kevin O'Rourke,
one of the foremost translators of Korean literature into English
in the world today. Professor O'Rourke includes in the volume a
biographical sketch of the Choson dynasty poet-official 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 Ch'ol 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 Ch'ol
as the greatest exponent of the essay-poem 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.
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