입암立巖 류중영柳仲郢의 삶과 시세계

Abstract

This study examined the life and poetry world of Jungyeong Ryu (1515~1573) with the pseudonym of Ibam. He was a bureaucratic scholar, who was committed to applying his academic beliefs to the nation and society for thirty years. As he admired such Confucian scholars as Eonjeok Lee with the pen name of Hoejae, Hwang Lee with the pen name of Toegye, and Sik Jo with the pseudonym of Nammyeong, he promoted the Confucian trend by carving wood blocks of their principal works and publishing them. In the course of such promotion, he accepted their academic merits directly and indirectly, and built up his own academic world. He did not so much seek the Neo-Confucianism which was the academic main stream of that time in the 16th century, but rather he disciplined himself internally and practiced his academic beliefs. Accordingly, his poems did not embody philosophical implications but mainly narrated his emotions in his situations or realistically sang about the objects around him. Particularly his poems about feelings described the Northern landscapes on his way as an official envoy, and his poems singing about objects embodied the landscapes around Andong as if to paint with watercolors. In conclusion, Jungyeong Ryu with pen name of Ibam paved the way to the prosperity of the Ryu Family originating from Pungsan in terms of the family history. His poems did not employ artificial elaboration and decoration, but showed an aspect of his characters as a man of virtue while suggesting his dignity of nobility.