The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Fine. Item #006444
SIGNED with inscription to Professor John Leyerle. Soft cover. xxix, 153 pp. Fine condition. This major anthology, the first of its kind in English, presents more than two hundred poems drawn from a tradition spanning a thousand years of Korean poets writing in the classical Chinese style. Sung-Il Lee captures the elegant simplicity and emotional complexity in translations that reflect the structure of the original while remaining true to the presentation of their imagery and ideas.
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