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... Cathay . During the ensuing seventy years , these “ translations " have been the subject of scurrilous attacks by pedants and sinologists , praised by poets as diverse as T.S. Eliot , Kenneth Rexroth , and Yvor Winters , and grist for ...
... Cathay . During the ensuing seventy years , these “ translations " have been the subject of scurrilous attacks by pedants and sinologists , praised by poets as diverse as T.S. Eliot , Kenneth Rexroth , and Yvor Winters , and grist for ...
Page 111
... Cathay is Wai - lim Yip's 1969 volume , Ezra Pound's Cathay ( Princeton University ) . There is also an excellent study by the noted Japanese Pound scholar , Sanehide Kodama ( American Poetry and Japanese Culture , Archon Books , 1984 ) ...
... Cathay is Wai - lim Yip's 1969 volume , Ezra Pound's Cathay ( Princeton University ) . There is also an excellent study by the noted Japanese Pound scholar , Sanehide Kodama ( American Poetry and Japanese Culture , Archon Books , 1984 ) ...
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... Cathay was , as Dr. Kenner points out , a " war book " issued at the outset of World War I. The privations of the old Chinese poets were not inconsistent with the privations suffered by English and American troops invading the continent ...
... Cathay was , as Dr. Kenner points out , a " war book " issued at the outset of World War I. The privations of the old Chinese poets were not inconsistent with the privations suffered by English and American troops invading the continent ...
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