Cathay e-bog
57,30 DKK
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At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English poem. Published in 1915, Cathay, Pound's collection of fourteen experimental translations of clas...
E-bog
57,30 DKK
Forlag
Penguin eBooks
Udgivet
31 oktober 2015
Længde
124 sider
Genrer
1FPC
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781760142407
At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English poem. Published in 1915, Cathay, Pound's collection of fourteen experimental translations of classic Chinese poems, was a groundbreaking work that set the stage for a new-found East in the West. 'Pound is the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time.' T.S. Eliot