夢觀 李廷柱 詩 硏究

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce first the poetry of Lee Jeong-ju(李廷柱, 1778~1853) to the scholastic world of Korean literature. As he was borne by the family of interpreter, he started his career as an offical interpreter for chinese. But when he arrived at hs late forties, he resigned his agelong interpreter job. And he devoted himself to reading and writing poetries. Among his fellow interpreter-poets, he was referred to unfortunate problem poets with Hyun Ki(玄錡, 1809-1860), Chung Ji-Youn(鄭芝潤, 1808~1858), and Yu Choe-Jin(劉最鎭, 1791~1869). His poetry was evaluated as having excellent, clear atmosphere and fresh unique expression by Chosun and Qing Dynasty literary critics. Conforming to this evaluation, we focused to select and analyse his works in The Poems of Mongkwan(夢觀詩稿). One of His first cousin was Lee Jeong-jik(李廷稷, 1781~1816) whose son was Lee Sang-jeok(李尙迪, 1804~1865), one of the excellent poets of the middle 19th century in Chosun Dynasty. And they thought to be contributed significant influences to him. This paper is, we hope, not only the maiden introduction of the poetical works of Lee Jeong-ju, but also playing the role of the little stepping stone of the 19th century Sino-Korean poetry in Chosun Dynasty.