The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo

by Richard Rutt

Book Overview

The sijo is the most popular and most Korean of all traditional Korean poetic forms, originating with the old songs of the Hyangka of the Sylla Empire (668-936) and the prose songs of the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392). Sometimes likened to haiku for its brevity, a typical sijo poem follows a three-line pattern, with each line containing approximately fifteen syllables. The first two lines mimic one another both in form and content, but the last...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472085581
• ISBN13: 9780472085583
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"