P001

Type	Name (Hangeul)	Name (Hanja)	Name (Revised Romanization)	Name (McCune–Reischauer)	Name (Pinyin)	Year of Birth	Year of Death	Family Clan	Office(s) Held	Gender	Nationality	Social Status	Exam Year
문인	이규보	李奎報	Yi Gyubo	Yi Kyubo		1168 ^JL	1241 ^JL	黃驪	평장사	남	H008	문반	1189 ^JL

Poems by Yi Kyubo

Poem in English	Appraised By⠉	Critique in English⠉	Critical Terms⠉	Entry
Three shouts of “To ten thousand years!” A sacred mountain burst forth. A thousand-year-old divine peach appears.				E035
A painting cannot be owned by everyone. A poem can reach everywhere. If a poem reads like a painting, it befits to be known for ten thousand years.				E036

Critiques by Yi Kyubo

Target Poem	Critical Terms	Critique in English	Entry
CT001 CT002	CT001 CT002	His composition method (kuppŏp) is marvelous and classical (kigo), and there is no trace of the habit of ornamental (kiryŏ) embellishment. How could dispirited writers of later generations hope to achieve this?
CT004 CT005	CT004 CT005	Lofty and ancient (kogo), robust and simple (unghon), her poem rivals the poems from the early Tang dynasty. At that time, the literary culture of the East had not yet flourished. Besides Ŭlchi Mundŏk’s quatrain, I had heard nothing else. That she achieved this as a female sovereign is truly remarkable.
P068 P094	P068 P094	O learned poetic styles of Han Yu 韓愈 (768–824) and Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770), but his poems are few in number.	E034

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