Cathay Pathetic Literature Edward van de Vendel

Edward van de Vendel

are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention

the achievement of a neglected modernist master

part celebration of the possibilities of poetic noise and possibility

Cathay Pathetic Literature Edward van de VendelEzra Pound First published in 1915, Cathay, Ezra Pounds early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation of the Anglo Saxon poem The Seafarer. In 1916, Cathay was reprinted in Pounds book Lustra without The Seafarer and with four more Chinese poems. Cathay was greatly indebted to the notes of Ernest Fenollosa, a Harvard trained scholar. In Fenollosas Chinese poetry materials, the noted scholar