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? > Dan Pearlman Office: Department of English 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 University of Rhode Island Providence, RI 02906 Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 453-3027 Tel.: 401 874-4659 email: [log in to unmask] Fax: 401 874-2580