Confucius to Cummings

Confucius to Cummings

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780811201551

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Nearly a hundred poets are represented, a number of them in Pound's translations, with emphasis on the Greek, Latin, Chinese, Troubadour, Renaissance, and Elizabethan poets.


Ezra Pound and Confucianism

Ezra Pound and Confucianism

Author: Feng Lan

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1442613114

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In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism. While Pound scholars are familiar with the American poet's commitment to Confucianism, the question of how Confucianism systematically shaped Pound's thoughts has not been convincingly answered. Lan shows that when confronted with what appeared to him a dehumanising modern world, Pound discovered in Confucianism possible solutions to issues that he encountered in language, politics, and religion, which Western intellectual tradition as a whole had failed to provide. By integrating Confucian doctrines with received ideas from Western tradition, Pound developed a humanist discourse and brought it to bear on the historical conditions of his time. The result was a discourse characterized primarily by the following beliefs: the human mind as the source of creation, the individual's moral will as the basis of truth and social order, the human partnership with the world of nature, the self-perfectibility of human beings, and their innate capability for internal transcendence in spiritual life. Lan examines the strategies with which Pound reconstructed Confucianism into a systematic modern discourse, focusing on his controversial translation of Confucian scriptures, his rethinking of the nature of language and poetry, his political theory of the individual and the state, and his formulation of an unorthodox spirituality. Situating Pound's works in diverse cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, Ezra Pound and Confucianism demonstrates that, despite its frequent divergence from the Confucian canon, Pound's Confucian humanism gives his poetry an ideological coherence, enriches the Western humanist tradition, and asserts its relevance to the historical and cross-cultural development of Confucianism in modern times.


Cathay

Cathay

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-29

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.


Confucian Analects

Confucian Analects

Author: Confucius

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781452840857

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Confucian Analects, written by legendary author Confucius, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Confucian Analects is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Confucius is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, Confucian Analects would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.


Ezra Pound and China

Ezra Pound and China

Author: Zhaoming Qian

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2003-04-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780472068296

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DIVExplores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture /div


Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1957-01-17

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0811221903

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Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.


Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780811201605

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This selection from the Cantos was made by Ezra Pound himself in 1965. It is intended to "indicate main elements" in the long poem -- his personal epic -- with which he was engaged for more than fifty years. His choice includes, of course, a number of the Cantos most admired by critics and anthologists, such as Canto XIII ("Kung [Confucius] walked by the dynastic temple..."), Canto XLV ("With usura hath no man a house of good stone...") and the passage from The Pisan Cantos (LXXXI) beginning "What thou lovest well remains / the rest is dross," and so the book is an ideal introduction for newcomers to the great work. But it has, too, particular interest for the already initiated reader and the specialist, in its revelation, through Pound's own selection of "main elements," of the relative importance which he himself placed on various motifs as they figure in the architecture of the whole poem. Book jacket.


The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780811215589

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At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.