Cathay

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Cathay is a 1915 poetry collection by Ezra Pound, celebrated for its influential, imagist-era translations and adaptations of classical Chinese poems.

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Cathay canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWithPoet Du Fu
Li Bai
Rihaku (Li Bai under Japanese reading)
author Ezra Pound
basedOn classical Chinese poetry
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely regarded as a landmark of modernist translation
genre lyric poetry
translation
hasApproximateNumberOfPoems about 15
hasForm free verse
hasPoem Exile’s Letter
Four Poems of Departure
Song of the War Carts
surface form: Lament of the Frontier Guard

Leave-Taking Near Shoku
Old Idea of Choan by Rossetti
Song of the Bowmen of Shu
South-Folk in Cold Country
Taking Leave of a Friend
The Beautiful Toilet
The City of Choan
The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
The North Gate
The River Song
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
surface form: The River-Merchant’s Wife

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
To-Em-Mei’s The Unmoving Cloud
influenced Anglophone reception of Chinese poetry
modernist poetry in English
language English
literaryMovement Imagism
notableFor adaptations of classical Chinese poems
influential imagist-era translations
period early 20th century
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
primarySource notes and translations of Ernest Fenollosa
publicationYear 1915
publisher Elkin Mathews
relatedAuthor Ernest Fenollosa
relatedWork Lustra
sourceLanguage Chinese
style imagist
subject exile
frontier life
love
separation
war
titleRefersTo archaic European name for China

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Imagism hasNotableWork Cathay
Ripostes precedes Cathay
Personae relatedWork Cathay