Chronology Entry
Year
1927
Text
Letter from Ezra Pound to Glenn Hughes ; Rapallo, 9 November, 1927.
Dear Hughes : On reading over my translation of Ta Hio, it strikes me that the acrid and querulous preface I had sketches is a bloody impertinence and that any attempt to force local application, talk about need of present America, etc., bloody bureaucracy, etc. etc., would be a damned impertinence. I mean tacking my bloomink preface into the work itself. Hope you'll agree. Seems to me it will be introd. enough if you say in the prospectus :
In this brochure (or chapbook) Mr. Pound does for the first of the Confucian classics what he did, in Cathay, for Rikahu.
Any question of method or interpretation of ideograph can wait for or be referred to Fenollosa's 'Essay on the Chinese Written Character'…
Re the preface to Ta Hio : I don't think I ought to use Kung as a shoehorn for a curse on American State Dept. and the Wilson-Hardic Administrations, etc. At least thass the way I feel this A.M. Re printing : I think text of Ta Hio shd. be one size type and commentators' remarks (including my own) another, or possibly better italic. I had thought of having three sizes : 1) Text ; 2) Comment ; and 3) transtr's notes ; but think it would prob. Make ugly page…
Dear Hughes : On reading over my translation of Ta Hio, it strikes me that the acrid and querulous preface I had sketches is a bloody impertinence and that any attempt to force local application, talk about need of present America, etc., bloody bureaucracy, etc. etc., would be a damned impertinence. I mean tacking my bloomink preface into the work itself. Hope you'll agree. Seems to me it will be introd. enough if you say in the prospectus :
In this brochure (or chapbook) Mr. Pound does for the first of the Confucian classics what he did, in Cathay, for Rikahu.
Any question of method or interpretation of ideograph can wait for or be referred to Fenollosa's 'Essay on the Chinese Written Character'…
Re the preface to Ta Hio : I don't think I ought to use Kung as a shoehorn for a curse on American State Dept. and the Wilson-Hardic Administrations, etc. At least thass the way I feel this A.M. Re printing : I think text of Ta Hio shd. be one size type and commentators' remarks (including my own) another, or possibly better italic. I had thought of having three sizes : 1) Text ; 2) Comment ; and 3) transtr's notes ; but think it would prob. Make ugly page…
Mentioned People (1)
Pound, Ezra
(Hailey, Idaho 1885-Venedig 1972) : Dichter, Schriftsteller
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Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1985 | Bush, Ronald. Pound and Li Po. In : Ezra Pound among the poets. Ed. by George Bornstein. (Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1985). | Publication / Pou76 |
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