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Confucius - The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects (Paperback)
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Confucius - The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects (Paperback)
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The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound's
life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius),
Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese history, and in the later Cantos
key motifs are often given in Chinese quotations with the
characters set into the English text. His introduction to Oriental
literature was chiefly through Ernest Fenollosa whose translations
and notes were given him by the scholars widow in London about
1913. From these notebooks came, in time, the superb poems entitled
Cathay and Pound's edition of Fenollosa's Chinese Written Character
as a Medium for Poetry. But it was Confucius' ethical and political
teachings--that most influenced Pound. And now, for the first time,
his versions, with commentary, of three basic texts that he
translated have been assembled in one volume: The Great Digest (Ta
Hsio), first published in 1928; The Unwobbling Pivot (Chung Yung),
1947; and The Analects (Lun-yu), 1950. For the first two, the
Chinese characters from the ancient "Stone Classics" are printed en
face in our edition, with a note by Achilles Fang. Pound never
wanted to be a literal translator. What he could do, as no other
could, is to identify the essence, pick out "what matters now," and
phrase it so pungently, so beautifully, that it will stick in the
head and start new thinking.
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