1st Edition

Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

Edited By Peter H. Lee Copyright 1974
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

The Koreans, according to the Chinese chronicles, are ‘the people who enjoy singing and dancing’ and who regaled their gods with dance and song. Since then poetry has been an essential part of Korean life and has been regarded as the highest of the arts. In this first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry in English, first published in 1974, Peter Lee has selected and translated a wide variety... Read more

1. The Silla Dynasty 57 BC – AD 935  2. The Koryŏ Dynasty 918 – 1392  3. The Yi Dynasty 1392 – 1910  4. Twentieth-Century Poetry

Biography

Peter H. Lee