Pounders:
Has anyone read Wai-lim Yip's book Ezra Pound's Cathay?
Most Chinese scholars I'm aware of seem pretty dismissive of Pound as a
translator from Chinese, calling him an inventor of Chinese poetry in
English--I think maybe Eliot said this and Kenner picked up on it--and
not an effective translator, but I can't imagine Yip writing an entire
book aimed at dismissing the subject. And in other writings I've read
Yip has at least been very aware of the poetic advances in English
attributable to Pound, and I wonder if Ezra Pound's
Cathay is something known, respected, recommended, etc.
Thank you.
Lucas
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Lucas Klein
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