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Cathay by Unknown
The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/ interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among oth...
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Song of the Bowmen of Shu 02.01.2026 2:24
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The Beautiful Toilet 01.01.2026 1:07
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The River Song 31.12.2025 3:19
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The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter 30.12.2025 2:13
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Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin 29.12.2025 2:30
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The Jewel Stair’s Grievance 28.12.2025 1:21
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Lament of the Frontier Guard 27.12.2025 2:03
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Exile’s Letter 26.12.2025 5:54
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Four Poems of Departure 25.12.2025 2:48
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The City of Choan 24.12.2025 1:16
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South-Folk In Cold Country 23.12.2025 1:26
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Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku 22.12.2025 1:31
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A Ballad of the Mulberry Tree 21.12.2025 1:30
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Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu 20.12.2025 2:18
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To Em-Mei’s : The Unmoving Cloud 19.12.2025 2:30
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The Seafarer 18.12.2025 7:07
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The Alchemist 17.12.2025 4:41
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