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Hogok’s Remarks on Poetry (Compendium of Remarks on Poetry)
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尤齋先生非但道學為一世所宗。文章灝噩。亦當為東方第一大家。 金石文字非出公手。世皆歉然。故公私碑碣不知其幾百篇。而皆宏傑可誦。實千古所罕。詩亦典重有法。其游楓岳詩曰。陳篇聞有古人心。半世牢關字字尋。卻怕埋頭無了日。更將閑腳逐飛禽。楓山灝氣千年積。蓬海滄波萬丈深。此地最宜南岳句。每登高處費長吟。與朱夫子朗吟飛下祝融峰氣象宛然一揆。余於負笈華陽之日陪宿數旬。見其每夜輪誦周易 孟子大全。周而復始。乃問其讀書幾何。則答曰世間多讀書者無如我。世傳盧蘇齋多讀。而所讀者只在謪十九年而已。我則自少至老無日不讀。古今人似無如我者云。
Song Siyŏl was not only a great master of Neo-Confucianism in our generation, but he should also be considered the number-one writer in the East for his extensive writings. If carved inscriptions were not from his hands, the whole generation felt disappointed. Therefore, he composed hundreds of commemorative writings. They were all outstanding (koenggŏl) and recitable (kasong), a truly rare accomplishment in a thousand years. His poetry also was refined, weighty, (chŏnjung) and proper (yubŏp). His poem “Visiting the P’ungak Mountains” 遊楓嶽 reads, 陳編聞有古人心半世牢關字字尋却恐埋頭無了日遂將閒脚逐孤禽楓山灝氣千年積蓬海滄波萬丈深此地只宜南嶽句每登高處費長吟 The old books, I’ve heard,contain the heart of the ancients.So half of a lifetime, I’ve shut myself inand searched for it word by word. But fearing my head will be buried in bookswith no end in sight,I have taken leisurely stepsand followed a lonesome bird.The vast air of the P’ungak Mountainstook a thousand years to gather.The blue waves of Penglai’s seais a thousand feet deep.In this place, the only appropriateare the poems on Nanyue Mountain.With every ascent to a high place,I take time to chant them slowly. The poem vividly (wanyŏn) evokes the scenery (kisang) in Zhu Xi’s poem, 朗吟飛下祝融峰 Reciting the poems, I fly down upon the Zhurong Peak.When I studied in Hwayang village, I stayed for a month at Song’s residence. I saw him every night reciting the Zhouyi zhuanyi daquan 周易傳義大全 (Complete Commentaries on the Book of Changes) and the Mengzi daquan 孟子大全 (Complete Commentaries on the Mencius) from start to finish and then over again. When I asked how many times he has read those books, he answered, “In the world, no one has read as many books as I have. People say No Susin has read a lot, but he only read during his nineteen years of exile. I have not stopped reading from childhood until now. Both in the past and present, none is like me.”
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