Links for Korean Poetry
Selected Anthologies
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry
The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla & Koryŏ
Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Chosŏn Dynasty Poets
The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese
Brother Enemy: Poems of the Korean War
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
Sijo Poetry
Women Poets
Audio and Video Recordings
Selected References
Hanguk hyŏndae munhak taesajŏn 한국현대문학대사전 (online)
Hanguk hyŏndae munhak taesajŏn 한국현대문학대사전 (in print)
E-Text Poetry Collection 한국근대시집총서 Form and Freedom in Korean Poetry
Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions
A History of Korean Literature
Harvard Library Research Guide for Korean Literature 212: Modern Korean Poetry
Harvard Library Digital Resources for Korean Studies
News Links
Boston Globe On Korean Sijo
Read a Boston Globe article about the sijo (June 30, 2009)
“The new haiku? Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo”
The Chosun Ilbo (Chosun.com) on Korean Sijo
Read a Chosun Ilbo article about the sijo (October 6, 2009)
“청산~리…” 미(美)에 시조 전도하는 하버드대 교수
KBS 2TV Broadcast in Korea on Sijo
Watch a video clip from “World Today” about sijo events in Chicago (April 9–10, 2010)
“A Sijo Workshop for English Teachers with Professor David McCann, Harvard University”
Harvard Courses: Korean Poetry
Korean Literature 132. Korean Literature in Translation
Korean Literature 212. Modern Korean Poetry
Major and minor voices in 20th and 21st-century Korean poetry. Attention to the practices of reading and translation, and to the political contexts of modern Korean poetry.
East Asian Studies 160. Writing Asian Poetry
Readings in selected Chinese, Japanese, and Korean verse forms, and composition or imitation in English. Study of Li Po and Tu Fu (Chinese couplet), Basho (haiku and haibun mixed prose and poetry), Yun Son-do and other Korean poets (shijo), and composition/imitation. Final project, an extended suite of poems or mixed prose and poetry.