Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters (repost)
Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
Oxford University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 019923860X | Pages: 272 | PDF | 2.22 MB
Oxford University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 019923860X | Pages: 272 | PDF | 2.22 MB
No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists in his various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers?