{"product_id":"a-boat-ready-to-set-sail-paperback","title":"A Boat Ready to Set Sail - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePak Yong-Chŏl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSung-Il Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book contains the collected poems of Pak Yong-chŏl (1904-1938), one of the pioneers of modern Korean poetry. Living in an age when the whole nation was suffering from lack of national pride and futuristic vision for the country, Pak Yong-chŏl sought the meaning of his life in exploring the beauty of the Korean language in his lyric poems. Pak Yong-chŏl's life was like a flash of lightning. Living at a time when the whole nation was suffering from spiritual torpor, he had to cope with his physical illness that eventually deprived him of life in his mid-thirties. He was a believer in \"\"art for art's sake\"\" at a time when a number of writers were leaning to politico-social ideologies. Despite the paucity of his remaining poems, he is to be remembered as one who was eager to live and die with an ardor for the essential beauty of poesy flowing from Parnassus. His name was writ in blood, if Keats's in water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSung-Il Lee, who has translated the poems, is professor emeritus of English at Yonsei University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf in Parallel Texts \u003c\/i\u003e(Cascade, 2017), \u003ci\u003eCounting the Stars at Night \u003c\/i\u003e(Resource, 2022), \u003ci\u003eWhite Village \u003c\/i\u003e(Resource, 2023), and \u003ci\u003eNine Peaks \u003c\/i\u003e(Resource, 2024).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731241201971,"sku":"9798385224890","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZxWU8hSFpe9798385224890.webp?v=1763852186","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-boat-ready-to-set-sail-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}