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Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound, Timothy Billings (Editor), Christopher Bush (Introduction), Haun Saussy (Foreword) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound's translations helped establish a modern style for American literature, at the same time creating a thirst for classical Chinese poetry in English. Pound's dynamic free-verse translations in a modern idiom formed the basis for T.S. Eliot's famous claim that Pound was the "inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." Yet Pound achieved this feat without knowing any Chinese, relying instead on word-for-word "cribs" left by the Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa, whose notebooks reveal a remarkable story of sustained cultural exchange.This fully annotated critical edition focuses on Pound's astonishing translations without forgetting that the original Chinese poems are masterpieces in their own right. On the one hand, the presentation of all that went into the final Cathay makes it possible for the first time to appreciate the magnitude and the nuances of Pound's poetic art. At the same time, by bringing the final text together with the Chinese and Old English poems it claims to translate, as well as the manuscript traces of Pound's Japanese and American inter

Who reads Cathay: A Critical Edition?

Author

Ezra Pound, Timothy Billings (Editor), Christopher Bush (Introduction), Haun Saussy (Foreword)

Publisher

Fordham University Press ; Eurospan [distributor

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823228706

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism