Cathay : : A Critical Edition / / Ezra Pound; ed. by Timothy Billings.

Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismEzra 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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. The Archive of Cathay
  • Introduction. "From the Decipherings"
  • Editor's Introduction. Cracking the Crib
  • CATHAY
  • Song of the Bowmen of Shu
  • The Beautiful Toilet
  • The River Song
  • The River- Merchant's Wife: a Letter
  • The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
  • Poem by the Bridge at Ten- Shin
  • Lament of the Frontier Guard
  • Exile's Letter
  • The Seafarer
  • FOUR POEMS OF DEPARTURE
  • Separation on the River Kiang
  • Taking Leave of a Friend
  • Leave-taking near Shoku
  • The City of Choan
  • South- Folk in Cold Country
  • FROM LUSTRA (1916). The Chinese Poems
  • Additions to Cathay
  • Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
  • A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
  • Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
  • To-em-mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"
  • Miscellaneous Poems
  • After Ch'u Yuan
  • Liu Ch'e
  • Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
  • Ts'ai Chi'h
  • Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic
  • Epitaphs
  • THE LITTLE REVIEW ( 1918). Two Trans lat ions
  • Dawn on the Mountain
  • Wine
  • CRIBS FOR CATHAY & OTHER POEMS
  • Editorial Conventions
  • Front Matter to Cathay
  • Song of the Bowmen of Shu
  • The Beautiful Toilet
  • The River Song
  • The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter
  • The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
  • Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
  • Lament of the Frontier Guard
  • Exile's Letter
  • The Seafarer
  • Four Poems of Departure
  • South-Folk in Cold Country
  • Back Matter to Cathay
  • Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
  • A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
  • Old Idea of Choan
  • To-em-mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"
  • After Ch'u Yuan
  • Liu Ch'e
  • Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
  • Ts'ai Chi'h
  • Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic
  • Epitaphs
  • Dawn on the Mountain
  • Wine
  • CHINESE POETRY
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Also Available