Portrait of Heo Nanseolheon

Heo Nanseolheon

Heo Nanseolheon, pen name “White Orchid,” was a sequestered noblewoman who lived in sixteenth-century Korea. Considered by many Korean scholars to be the country’s greatest female poet, she died at twenty-seven. (updated 10/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

from Palace Poem

Poetry by Heo Nanseolheon Translated by Ian Haight and T’ae-yong Hŏ
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