Description: Originally published: London: Stanley Nott, 1936.
Brief description: Ezra Pound (1884-1972) was a leading Modernist poet and the driving force behind Imagism and Vorticism.
Review Quotes: This is the book that I have been waiting for since I first read Ezra Pound's version of Ernest Fenollosa's The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry nearly half a century ago. In that guise, Fenollosa's seminal essay was immensely influential, but it had been commandeered by Pound's powerful mind and idiosyncratic views. Now, at last, Haun Saussy and his colleagues have not only given us Fenollosa's original essay in all of its glory and tentativeness, through an ingenious format and meticulous scholarship they have succeeded in presenting this masterpiece of modern poetics as the organic, evolving experiment in cultural interfusion it was meant to be.-----Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania