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**Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism** 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 th

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Author

Ezra Pound (editor); Timothy Billings (editor); Christopher Bush (editor); Haun Saussy (editor)

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823288687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24