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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Among the numerous literary works titled Selected Poems are the following ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There is a debate about whether the poems should be viewed primarily as translations or as contributions to Imagism and the modernization of English poetry. [160] English professor Steven Yao argued that Cathay shows that translation does not need a thorough knowledge of the source language. [l] Pound's translations from Old English, Latin ...
Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English, despite a complete lack of knowledge of the Chinese ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley addresses Pound's alleged failure as a poet. F. R. Leavis considered it "quintessential autobiography." [2]Speaking of himself in the third person, Pound criticises his earlier works as attempts to "wring lilies from the acorn", that is to pursue aesthetic goals and art for art's sake in a rough setting, America, which he calls "a half-savage country".
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Selected Poems (disambiguation) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
The most striking feature of the text, to a casual browser, is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English. Recourse to scholarly commentaries is almost inevitable for a close reader. The range of allusion to historical events and other works of literature is very broad, and abrupt changes ...
Selected Poems is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Pinsky selected and edited by America’s 39th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The first hardback edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2011; the first paperback edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2012 [1]