The moonlit pond
Subtitle: Korean classical poems in Chinese
By: translated & introduced by Sung-Il Lee.
Contributors: Lee, Sung-Il, 1943-
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: chi
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Chinese poetry -- Korea -- Translations into English; Korean poetry -- To 1900 -- Translations into English
Other titles: Korean classical poems in Chinese
Description: First major anthology in English of Korean poetry written in the classical Chinese style, presenting more than two hundred poems spanning a thousand year period. The selected poems explore a unique cultural phenomenon, expressing a Korean perspective on the transitoriness of life and the ephemerality of kingdoms and beauty, and the joy and longing of the eternal present.--Back cover.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: On the ruins of time; title: Call of the country; title: Poems of longing; title: The joy of living; title: Poems of Hwang Hyŏn; title: Poems of Yi Byong-ho.