Dear Yoshiko:
In my BARB OF TIME, the chapter on the Pisan Cantos,
I mention in passing the Trascendentalist influence
on EP as seen in his nature imagery in those Cantos,
but I don't believe I connected it to his "Taoism"
and it is therefore a topic still to be explored
starting from scratch.
Dan P
>
>Daniel,
>I am interested in your suggestion that E.P.'s latent
>Taoism is derived from American transcendentalism as his
>philosophical tendency. If you have already discussed
>it in a published work, would you please tell it to me?
>
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