Two Handwritten Anthologies of Kwangsoo Lee: "My Songs" and "My Songs 1"

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Two Handwritten Anthologies of Kwangsoo Lee: "My Songs" and "My Songs 1"

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“Complete works of Kwangsoo Lee; volume 15” published in April 1963 from Samjung-dang(三中堂) incorporated all his poems known until then. But the “volume 19” published in September of the same year, incorporated his unpublished 33 poems. According to the commentary, Kwangsoo Lee’s wife discovered in his study two notebooks in which the poems were handwritten. After the publication of the complete works, the notebooks went missing. In January 2015, I discovered these notebooks in the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library. One is titled “My Songs” and the other “My Songs1”. In this paper, I sorted and analyzed the poems in the two notebooks. It seems that the poems in “My Songs” had been written before 1945, and those in “My Songs 1” during the three months after he, who had been imprisoned by Nation Traitor Law, was bailed out. Through the poems, we can see what Kwangsoo Lee was thinking in those days in 1949, the preceding year of his abduction and disappearance during the Korean War.
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Chunwon Kwangsoo Lee, unpublished poems, “My Songs”, “Complete works of Kwangsoo Lee”

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