시문학파의 문학사적 의미망과 정지용

Abstract

The first issue of Simunhak was published in March 1930. At the time when it was first published, the influential power of this new magazine was not such great. Evaluated as one of the major literary magazines in the history of Korean literature, the first issue included 27 poems and 5 translated poems by Kim, Young-rang, Jeong, Ji-yong, Lee, Ha-yun, Park, Yong-cheol, Jeong, In-bo, etc. Park played a major role in editing the magazine and Kim, Young-rang published 13 poems. Jeong, Ji-yong published 4 poems which had been published in other magazines before. This means that Jeong was a rather inactive participant of the magazine. Kim, Hyun-gu joined in the second issue in may 1930 and the third issue was published in october 1931. Though Shin, Seok-jeong participated in the third issue, the publishment was not in favorable situation and it could no longer be issued. The terminology ‘Simunhakpa’ began with coterie magazine Simunhak and came to have important meaning in literary history with the publishment of Jeong Ji-yong Sijip and Young-rang Sijip. Though literary movement of Simunhakpa was a minor one by small group from coterie magazine, the fact that it endured the pressure of the period and made a influential wave spreading through several generations is highly evaluated by several researchers of literary history. Since the history of modern Korean literature had been formed literary tension through confrontation and antagonism between KAPF group and pure literature group, historical meaning of Simunhakpa also lies in as the literary home for pure literature confronting with KAPF group. Important literary achievement of Simunhakpa is in that group of poets who intended to write ‘a poem not eloquence’ established a brilliant literary tradition by achieving the purpose of ‘accomplishing the national language’. With Park, Yong-cheol as the head of the group, Jeong, Ji-yong and Kim, Young-rang were poets who contributed greatly to the forming of central flow of lyric poetry in the history of modern Korean literature. They can be assessed as the representative front-runners of pure literature group and poets who showed a unique individuality most satisfactorily.