Pound Ezra Ezra - Ezra Pounds Chinese friends: stories in letters

Stories in Letters

EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY
ZHAOMING QIAN

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2008 Previously unpublished letters and writings of Ezra Pound by courtesy of Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound, used by
permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, agents.
Photos used by courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and New
Directions Publishing Corporation, agents.
2008 Postscripts of Dorothy Pound by courtesy of Omar S. Pound.
2008 Scenes from Ezra Pounds screen book by courtesy of Mary de Rachewiltz.
2008 Letters and photographs of Carsun Chang by courtesy of Diana Chang and
June

T. F. Chang Tung.

2008 Letters and photographs of Tze-chiang Chao and C. H. Kwock by courtesy of C. H. Kwock.
2008 Letters and photographs of Achilles Fang by courtesy of Ilse Fang.
2008 Letters and photographs of P. H. Fang by courtesy of P. H. Fang.
2008 Photograph of Angela Jung Palandri by courtesy of Angela Jung Palandri.
2008 Letters and photograph of F. T. Sung by courtesy of Hongru Song.
2008 Letters and photograph of Fengchi Yang by courtesy of Lionello Lanciotti.
2008 Writing of William McNaughton by William McNaughton.
2008 Compilation, introductions, annotations, translations, and additional editorial matter by Zhaoming Qian.

Grateful acknowledgment is given to New Directions Publishing Corporation for permission to use the following copyrighted works of Ezra Pound: Excerpts from Ezra Pounds Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals, copyright 1991 by the Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust; excerpts from The Cantos of Ezra Pound, copyright 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1968 by Ezra Pound, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation; The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects, from Confucius, edited by Ezra Pound, translated by Ezra Pound, from Confucius, copyright 1947,1950 by Ezra Pound, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Book cover from Ezra Pounds Shih-Ching: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius appears courtesy of Harvard University Press, Copyright 1954, 1982 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

To Barry Ahearn,
George Bornstein,
and
Marjorie Perloff

Appendix
Ezra Pounds Typescript for Preliminary Survey (1951)

General

Libraries and Collections

Published Writings of Ezra Pound

Published Translations of Ezra Pound

Published Letters of Ezra Pound

Works by Others

Figures 1.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.2, 6.3, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, and 10.3 2008 Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar Pound, permission by New Directions Publishing Corporation, agents.

Figure 1.1 2008 Hongru Song, permission by Hongru Song.

Figures 2.1 and 2.2 2008 Mary de Rachewiltz, permission by Mary de Rachewiltz.

Figure 3.2 2008 Lionello Lanciotti, permission by Lionello Lanciotti.

Figures 4.2, 7.1, and 7.5 2008 Ilse Fang, permission by Ilse Fang.

Figure 5.1 2008 Angela Jung Palandri, permission by Angela Jung Palandri.

Figures 6.1 and 6.2 2008 Diana Chang and June Chang Tung, permission by Diana Chang and June Chang Tung.

Figures 6.4 and 8. 2 2008 C. H. Kwock, permission by C. H. Kwock.

Figures 10.1, and 10.4 2008 P. H. Fang, permission by P. H. Fang.

For figures 2.3, 2.4, 9.1, and 9.2, see disclaimer in Notes on the Text, p. xxiv.

Pound is the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time.

T. S. Eliot

I predict that the next century will see, even be dominated by, a dialogue between the U.S. and China in which Pounds poetry will take on an importance and weight not obvious at the moment: that not only has he woven a new wholeness, at any rate potential wholeness, out of European and American, but also of Chinese, elements.

Tom Scott

No literary figure of the past centuryin America or perhaps in any other Western countryis comparable to Ezra Pound (18851972) in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism.