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The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a four stanza poem, written in free verse, and loosely translated by Ezra Pound from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai. It first appeared in Pound's 1915 collection Cathay. It is the most widely anthologized poem of the collection. [1]
Pound critic Zhaoming Qian calls "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter", "The Jewell Stairs' Grievance" and "The Exile's Letter" "imagist and vorticist masterpieces". [2] The opening poem, "Song of the Bowmen of Shu", shows the dominant themes of separation and loneliness, especially the loneliness of the soldier.
Mary de Rachewiltz in 2012. Mary de Rachewiltz (born Maria Rudge; July 9, 1925) is an Italian-American [1] poet and translator. She is the daughter of the American poet Ezra Pound, whose The Cantos she translated into Italian.
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The River-Merchant’s Wife (2018) for soprano, flute, viola and piano; Psalm, Lament and Aubade (2018) for soprano, clarinet and piano; November Gold (2017) for medium voice and piano; Stories Wind Told to Grass (2015) for mezzo soprano, flute, cello and piano; The Leaves of Another Year (2014) for baritone, clarinet and guitar
Phanopoeia or phanopeia is defined as "a casting of images upon the visual imagination," [1] throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. In the first publication of these three types, Pound refers to phanopoeia as "imagism."
Des Imagistes: An Anthology, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914, was the first anthology of the Imagism movement. It was published in The Glebe in February 1914, and later that year as a book by Charles and Albert Boni in New York, and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London.