Cathay by Unknown

Cathay by Unknown

Loyal Books

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17
Episodes
2023
First episode

About Cathay by Unknown

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.

Publisher
Loyal Books
Category
arts
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
17 Dec 2023
Latest episode
2 Jan 2024
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Latest episodes

17 episodes in the feed.

  1. 2 Jan 2024

    Song of the Bowmen of Shu

  2. 1 Jan 2024

    The Beautiful Toilet

  3. 31 Dec 2023

    The River Song

  4. 30 Dec 2023

    The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

  5. 29 Dec 2023

    Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

  6. 28 Dec 2023

    The Jewel Stair’s Grievance

  7. 27 Dec 2023

    Lament of the Frontier Guard

  8. 26 Dec 2023

    Exile’s Letter

  9. 25 Dec 2023

    Four Poems of Departure

  10. 24 Dec 2023

    The City of Choan

  11. 23 Dec 2023

    South-Folk In Cold Country

  12. 22 Dec 2023

    Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku

  13. 21 Dec 2023

    A Ballad of the Mulberry Tree

  14. 20 Dec 2023

    Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu

  15. 19 Dec 2023

    To Em-Mei’s : The Unmoving Cloud

  16. 18 Dec 2023

    The Seafarer

  17. 17 Dec 2023

    The Alchemist

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