Literary history of Korea; critical issues in literary history.
Kranich am Meer: Koreanische Gedichte. Munich: Carl Hanser, 1959. Reprint, Munich:
Wilhelm Heyne, 1987.
Studies in Old Korean Poetry. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1959.
Anthology of Korean Poetry: From the Earliest Era to the Present. New York: John Day,
1964. Revised edition as Poems from Korea: A Historical Anthology. Honolulu:
University Press of Hawaii, 1974.
Korean Literature: Topics and Themes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965.
Lives of Eminent Korean Monks. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-Century Korean Stories. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii,
1974. Revised edition, 1986.
Songs of Flying Dragons: A Critical Reading. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
The Korean translation, Yongbi och¡¯on ka ui pip¡¯yongjok haesok, tr. Kim Songon.
Seoul: T¡¯aehaksa, 1998.
Celebration of Continuity: Themes in Classic East Asian Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1979.
The Silence of Love: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii,
1980.
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century. Honolulu:
University Press of Hawaii, 1981. Revised edition, 1990.
A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany: The P'aegwan chapki of O Sukkwon. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1989.
Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
Sourcebook of Korean Civilization. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993-96.
The Italian translation, 3 vols., Fonti per lo studio della civilta coreana, Milano: O Barra
O, 2000-2002.
Sources of Korean Tradition. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997-2001.
The Record of the Black Dragon Year. Seoul: Institute of Korean Culture, Korea University,
And Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 2000.
Myths of Korea. Somerset and Seoul: Jimoondang International, 2000.
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press,
2002.
A History of Korean Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2005.
Oral Literature of Korea. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2005.
The Story of Traditional Korean Literature (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press), 2013
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Articles and translations in Dictionary of Ming Biography; Dictionary of Oriental Literatures; Elek Book of Oriental Verse; Encyclopedia Britannica; Encyclopedia of Asian History; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century; Hudson Review; Journal of the American Oriental Society; McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography; Monumenta Serica; Oriens Extremus; Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation; Poetry (Chicago); Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; and T'oung Pao.
Reviews in Asian Perspectives; Comparative Literature; Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of the American Oriental Society; Korea Journal; Korea Studies; Oriens Extremus; and World Literature Today.