The collected poems, letters, memorials and essays of a Goryeo scholar who was thirty-two and still seeking office in 1200. His poems and letters of the 1190s and 1200s describe the examination life, the capital Gaeseong, the countryside and its distress, the petition for employment to Choe Chung-heon, and his appointment as a provincial official in 1199 and dismissal in 1200, which puts him in Jeonju just as the southern risings were suppressed. The Dongmyeong wang pyeon of 1193 is the epic of the Goguryeo founder; the prose includes the earliest Korean autobiography. A personal, contemporary voice from inside the Goryeo of 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Dongguk Yi Sangguk jip (東國李相國集)
- Author
- Yi Gyu-bo (李奎報)
- Author's dates
- 1168 to 1241
- Written
- poems and prose from the 1190s to 1241; collected and printed by his son in 1241, with a supplement in 1242
- Language
- Chinese (Literary Sinitic)
- Covers
- Goryeo under the Choe military house, from the 1190s to the Mongol invasions of the 1230s; 53 juan with the supplement
- Kind
- Poem
Only selections exist in English (for example in Richard Rutt's translations), under copyright. The ITKC database holds the full text and a Korean translation but a direct link to the work's page could not be verified; use the site search.
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- Dongguk Yi Sangguk jeonjip, Chinese text on Chinese Wikisource
- Author page for Yi Gyu-bo on Korean Wikisource