The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry : a Critical Edition
First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa?s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound?s understanding?it is fair to say, his appropriation?of the text. Fenollosa?s manuscripts, in the Beinec
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Conventions; Preface; Fenollosa Compounded:; The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: An Ars Poetica; Appendix; The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry; Synopsis of Lectures on Chinese and Japanese Poetry; Chinese and Japanese Poetry; Chinese and Japanese Traits; The Coming Fusion of East and West; Chinese Ideals; [Retrospect on the Fenollosa Papers]; Notes; Works Cited; Footnotes