On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:01:33 -0400 wrote...
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There are a couple of Paideuma articles which treat Transcendentalist influence
on Pound.  In sum, Emerson influenced by Enlightenment French writers, who were
influenced by Chinese thought returning to the metropole as a result of Jesuit
missions (de Mailla, et al) and trade. Boston of Emerson's time was also
directly linked to the East via trade routes.  Boston was the number 1 port for
American and Asian trade in 19th, according to Ed Griffin, university of
Minnesota, and it is no coincidence that Fenollosa fell under the influence of
Asian/Transcendentalist thought while living in Boston, nor that a formidable
Asian art collection in the Boston Museum is named the Fenollosa collection,
unto this day. But Beongcheon Yu's treatment of this subject is the most
comprehensive. The Great Circle: American Writers and the Orient   Detroit:
Wayne State Press, 1983
 
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
>
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>>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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