濂湖 許澮의 시문학 연구

Abstract

This writing deals with the life of Heo Hoe (1758~1829) who mainly did positive activities in the second half of Chosun Dynasty and the world of his literary works. Although Yeom-ho had typical military background, he was instructed by Seong-dam Song Hwan-Kee who had followed Yul-gok academic tradition. Even being in the field of warriors, he was good at writing poets, and gave lectures on his learning and battle tactics in Gyeonyeon(經筵), which made him get compliments from the king as an outstanding soldier equipped with academic knowledge. In a word, he was an unusual soldier with both academic and military virtue. Moreover, in his daily life, he was known as an exemplary son and also put a high value on practical life. It is presumed that Yeom-ho left a large volume of Chinese poetry, but just about 40 works have been come down so far. Details about those works are as follows:First, the half of his poetry works, about 20 poets include responses or greetings, adoption of other rhymes, and revisions of others’ poets while he was on excursions. Second, among his works relatively many of them are virtuous pursuing realization of public morals and the teaching of the sages. Additionally, he showed his enthusiasm in his poets to explore the nature of virtue contained in and through the nature. Third, Yeom-ho’s works get attention by their color reflecting his attitude which he sought secluded and unworldly life. Fourth, throughout his works, we can outstandingly acknowledge the grand conception, the great spirit, and the patriotism of him who lived as a soldier for his whole life.