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Cathay / translations by Ezra Pound, for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, translator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- English poetry--Translations, Chinese.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mitchell, J. N. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 W6762 Zz915c)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy (Ac9 W6762 Zz915c)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 31 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- London : Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Elkin Mathews, Cork Street, MCMXV [1915]
- Notes:
- Rihaku is the Japanese form of the name of the Chinese poet, Li Bai or Li Taibai.
- "The seafarer (from the early Anglo-Saxon text)" : p. 23-27.
- Brown printed paper wrapper.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of J. N.? Mitchell 1944.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 W6762 Zz915c) has inscription "Bull from Ezra March 1915".
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 W6762 Zz915c) has "W. Williams, 9 Ridge Rd., ... N.J." written in pencil on back flap.
- OCLC:
- 1438551
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