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Im Pang on
Casual Records by Such’on (Compendium of Remarks on Poetry)
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排律於初唐。沈宋。四傑諸人之作。皆妙。至老杜。至于百韻。則已患其多。弇州輓滄溟之作。亦百韻。而不無疵病。麗朝李文順。巨筆滔滔。而亦不過三百韻。任踈菴。乃有七百十六韻。此古今所無。而韻字多有韻書所無者。嘗欲自註其出處。而未果云。奇則奇矣。然亦未必奇也。又以觀漲為題。押强韻。至七排百韻。而以一意三次之。尤奇。盖任踈菴之詩。不及儷文。而惟溫李體酷肖。
Extended regulated verses (pailü) were created in the early Tang, and the works by Shen Quanqi, Song Zhiwen 宋之問 (ca. 660–712), and the Four Masters were all wonderful (myo). With Du Fu, extended regulated verses reached one hundred rhymes, and already people worried the rhymes were too numerous. Wang Shizhen’s eulogy poem for Li Panlong also numbered one hundred rhymes and was not without flaws (chabyŏng). Koryŏ dynasty’s Yi Kyubo, who was a magnificent literary master, also did not exceed three hundred rhymes. Then Im Sugyŏng wrote seven hundred and sixteen rhymes. This is unprecedented, and he used many rhymes not found in the rhyme books. He had wished to annotate the poem to show their sources but was unable to. There is no denying that Im’s poem is unique, but it also is not that necessarily so. Although the rhymes were forced, he also wrote a seven-character extended regulated verse of one hundred rhymes called “Watching the Flood Tide” 觀漲. That he did so three times with one intention is truly unique. Im’s poems might not have matched parallel prose (pianwen), but they were very similar to Wen Tingjun and Li Shangyin in style (ch’e).
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