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Cathay by Unknown
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/ interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon.
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Song of the Bowmen of Shu
January 02, 2024 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
The Jewel Stair’s Grievance
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Lament of the Frontier Guard
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Four Poems of Departure
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
South-Folk In Cold Country
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
A Ballad of the Mulberry Tree
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
To Em-Mei’s : The Unmoving Cloud
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com