Chronology Entry
Year
1937
Text
Ezra Pound was taking a six-week vacation in the summer 1937. He had with him only James Legge's bilingual edition of the Four Confucian books.
"During August and the first half of September 1937, I isolated myself with the Chinese text of the three books of Confucius, Ta Hio, Analects, and the Unwobbling Middle and that of Mencius, together with an enormously learned crib but no dictionary. You can't pack Morrison or Giles in a suitcase. "
"When I disagreed with the crib or was puzzled by it I had only the look of the characters and the radicals to go on from". He went over the text three times, and rose from it with a "better idea of the whole and the unity of the doctrine". “There are categories of the ideograms not indicated as such in the dictionaries, but divided really by the feel of their form, the twisted as evil, the stunted, the radiant. The mountain itself has a 'nature' and that nature is to come forth in trees, though men cut and sheep nibble."
"During August and the first half of September 1937, I isolated myself with the Chinese text of the three books of Confucius, Ta Hio, Analects, and the Unwobbling Middle and that of Mencius, together with an enormously learned crib but no dictionary. You can't pack Morrison or Giles in a suitcase. "
"When I disagreed with the crib or was puzzled by it I had only the look of the characters and the radicals to go on from". He went over the text three times, and rose from it with a "better idea of the whole and the unity of the doctrine". “There are categories of the ideograms not indicated as such in the dictionaries, but divided really by the feel of their form, the twisted as evil, the stunted, the radiant. The mountain itself has a 'nature' and that nature is to come forth in trees, though men cut and sheep nibble."
Mentioned People (1)
Pound, Ezra
(Hailey, Idaho 1885-Venedig 1972) : Dichter, Schriftsteller
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Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (2)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1983 | Nolde, John J. Blossoms from the East : the China cantos of Ezra Pound. (Orono, Maine : The National Poetry Foundation, The University of Maine, 1983). (Ezra Pound scholarship series). S. 21. | Publication / Pou77 | |
| 2 | 2003 | Ezra Pound & China. Ed. by Zhaoming Qian. (Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2003). S. 111. | Publication / Pou32 |