Ezra Pound's <i>Cathay</i> [Paperback]

Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pounds translation of the difficultCathaypoems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pounds principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, and shows in considerable detail his techniques in translating theCathaypoems.

Originally published in 1969.

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