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Abstract

Lee Deok-Mu was much interested in the Ming and Qing literature schools that were newly introduced into the literary world in the late Joseon Dynasty period and was affected by all of those literature schools. Jingling school(竟陵派) was one of those schools. Lee Deok-Mu read Jingling school books and recognized their existence and arguments already in his 10s~early 20s. Lee Deok-Mu particularly became to be interested in Jingling school through the poem grade book titled 《Poem(詩歸)》 critisized and selected by Jong Seong and Dam Won-Chun and highly evaluated their features as critics based on the book. Lee Deok-Mu was widely recognized as a critic at that time and conducted the activities of criticism continuously from his years of early 20s to his latter years. In particular, since he wrote poem critical books utilizing the grade criticism system from when he was in his early 20s, his interest in 《Poem(詩歸)》, which is a representative poem grade book in the Ming Dynasty period, can be said to be natural. Although previous studies regard the origin of Lee Deok-Mu’s grade criticism as Chinese grade books, in particular, Kim Seong-Tan’s novel critical book, to Lee Deok-Mu in his 20s, the effect of Jong Seong should have been larger than that of Kim Seong-Tan. In this period, Lee Deok-Mu was negative against novels and was not only unfamiliar to but also quite negative against Kim Seong-Tan. On the contrary, Lee Deok-Mu was quite favorable to Jong Seong and regarded 《Poem(詩歸)》 as criteria for criticism. Although the substance of the poem grade book written by Lee Deok-Mu cannot be known because no copy of the book remains now, the substance of Lee Deok-Mu’s grade criticism can be identified through his prose grade books written by him in his 30s or later. If Lee Deok-Mu was affected by 《Poem(詩歸)》 in relation to criticism/selection(評選) and grade criticism(評點批評), some of the effects can be identified through cases applied to essay books. Therefore, 《Jongbuksoseon》 was examined as an example. First, Lee Deok-Mu and Jong Seong are the same in that both recognize 《Jongbuksoseon》 and 《Poem(詩歸)》 that criticized and selected others’ works. Only Lee Deok-Mu had this recognition in the literary world in the Joseon Dynasty period. 《Jongbuksoseon》has different pigment colors from general grade books. In addition, one brief criticism is placed above each work, which is a unique system of only 《Jongbuksoseon》 throughout China and Korea. This creative feature can be said to have been made by Lee Deok-Mu by accepting the criticising method of 《Poem(詩歸)》 but transformed it into his original method.