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The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition by Ernest Fenollosa; Ezra Pound; Jonathan Stalling; Lucas Klein; Haun Saussy is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s un

Who reads The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition?

Author

Ernest Fenollosa; Ezra Pound; Jonathan Stalling; Lucas Klein; Haun Saussy

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823228706

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25