Waley, Arthur

Arthur Waley ist Mitarbeiter des Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings am British Museum. Seine Hauptaufgabe ist die Katalogisierung der Malereien aus Dunhuang von Aurel Stein. Er beginnt Chinesisch und Japanisch zu studieren.

Pound, Ezra. Books current : One hundred and seventy Chinese poems by Arthur Waley [ID D8884]. In : Future 2 (1918). [Review].
The book is certainly the fullest illustration of Chinese poetic subject matter available in English. There are passages undeniably beautiful. The one lack is the sense of intensity which should hold the reader's attention.

Advertisement of One hundred and seventy Chinese poems. Transl. by Arthur Waley [ID D8884] in The New Republic ; 31 May (1919).
Alfred Knopf got a letter from Amy Lowell (22 May 1919) :
"No better translations have so far appeared of Chinese poetry. He [Waley] has given the real feeling of Chinese poetry, its clarity, its suggestion, its perfec humanity. There is no other translation of Chinese poetry now available with anything like the merit of this."
The sentence which Alfred Knopf from the letter excised was : "I have been working lately on Chinese poetry with a friend of mine who lives in China, so I know whereof I speak, and while I do not always agree with Mr. Waley's renderings of those poems with which I am familiar, he has done what nobody else has."

Waley, Arthur. Review of Fir-flower tablets by Florence Wheelock Ayscough ; English versions by Amy Lowell. In : Literary review of The New York Evening Post ; Febr. 4 (1922).
"It is a real book of Chinese poetry, it is worth criticizing".

Chinese poems. [Translated by] Arthur Waley. (London : Privately printed by Lowe Brothers, 1916).
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Waley, Arthur. Chinesische Lyrik aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Franziska Meister-Weidner. (Hamburg : V. Schröder, 1951).

The yearbook of Oriental art and culture. Ed. by Arthur Waley. (London : E. Benn, 1924-1925). = Oriental art and culture : a study of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese art. [Ed.] Arthur Waley. Vol. 1-2. Reprint. (New Delhi : Cosmo, 1981). Vol. 1 : Text. Vol. 2 : Plates.].

Waley, Arthur. A catalogue of paintings recovered from Tun-huang by Sir Aurel Stein : preserved in the Du-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, and in the Museum of Central Asian Antiquities, Delhi. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum and of the government of India, 1931). [Dunhuang].

Li, Chih-ch'ang. The travels of an alchemist : the journey of the taoist Ch'ang-ch'un from China to the Hindukush at the summons of Chingiz Khan. Recorded by his disciple Li Chih-ch'ang ; translated with an introduction by Arthur Waley. (London : Routledge, 1931). Übersetzung von Li, Zhichang. Changchun zhen ren xi you ji. (Lingshi : Yang shi kan ben, 1847). 长春眞人西游记

Wu, Ch'eng-en. Monkey. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. (London : Allen & Unwin, 1942). = Der rebellische Affe : die Reise nach dem Westen : ein chinesischer Roman. Nach der englischen Ausg. von Arthur Waley übersetzt ; mit einem Essay Zum Verständnis des Werkes von Hellmut Wilhelm. (Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1961). (Rowohlts Klassiker der Literatur. Östliche Philosophie und Literatur ; Bd. 2). [Wu, Cheng'en].

Eoyang, Eugene Chen. The many 'worlds' in world literature : Pound and Waley as translators of Chinese. In : Reading world literature : theory, history, practice. Ed. and with an introd. by Sarah Lawall. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994).