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This chapter explores how Jeong Ji-yong, who has been considered one of the remarkable modern poets in Korea, was under the influence of non-Korean poets. A scrutiny of the poems by Jeong reveals that he was indebted not only to East and South Asian poets, but also to Western poets in general and American and British poets in particular. A significant strand in the fabric of Jeong’s poetry, although not yet given much attention by literary historians in Korea or abroad, is English poetry and its influences. Those English poets include William Blake, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Joyce Kilmer, Sara Teasdale, and Trumbull Stickney.
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For a discussion of Park Heon-yeong as a translator (not a passionate revolutionary), see Wook-Dong Kim, Beonyeokgwa Hangugui Geundae [Translation and the Modernity of Korea] (Seoul: Somyeong Publications, 2010), pp. 155–160.
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Kim, WD. (2019). Intertextuality of Jeong Ji-yong’s Poems. In: Global Perspectives on Korean Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8727-2_10
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