He
corresponded
with EP at intervals from 1935.
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters
Brother of Boris de Rachewiltz.
He studied Chinese, Mongolian, and Asian history at the University of Rome (1948-51) and the Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples (1952-5).
He worked at the Australian National Univer- sity at Caberra until retirement in 1994.
Del Mar, Alexander (1836-1926). American historian. He headed the US Bureau of Statistics from 1866 to 1869. Parts of his A History of Monetary Crimes (1899) and other works appeared in the Square Dollar series.
Du Fu (712-70). Tang poet. He and Li Bo (701-62) are often considered the two greatest poets in China's literary history. The Du Fu/Li Bo relation is treated in Sam Hamill's Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry (1993). For Du Fu's work in translation, see Burton Watson's Selected Poems of Du Fu (2002).
Fenollosa, Ernest (1853-1908). American orientalist. After a twelve-year sojourn in Japan he became the curator of oriental art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1890-7). His Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art was published posthumously in London in 1912. In 1913 his widow Mary Fenollosa entrusted to EP his notes and manuscripts, which yielded Cathay (1915), ''Noh'' or Accomplishment (1917), and ''The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry'' (1919).
Frobenius, Leo (1873-1938). German anthropologist and archeologist. He led twelve expeditions to Africa between 1904 and 1935. His works include Unter den unstra ? flichen Athiopen (1913) and Erlebte Erdteile (Parts of the Earth Experienced), 7 vols. (1925-9). He and EP met in 1927. He is listed in Cantos 38, 74, 87, and 89.
Guan Zhong ? ? or Guanzi ? ? (c. 725-645 bc). Ancient Chinese statesman and economist. He served as prime minister to Duke Huan of Qi. His teachings are recorded in the work Guanzi. For its first thirty-three essays in translation, see Allyn Rickett's Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China; A Study and Trans- lation (2001).
Hawley, Willis Meeker (1896-1987). Hollywood book-seller and sinologist. He sup- plied the Stone-Classics texts of The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot (1951). He also
glossary 2 3 1 provided EP characters for Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). The EP/Hawley relation
is treated in Mary Paterson Cheadle's Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations (1997).
Horton, T. David (b. 1927). American poet and publisher. A graduate from the Catholic University of America, he was a regular visitor to EP at St Elizabeths. At EP's instigation he and John Kasper co-founded the Square Dollar series of inexpensive paperbacks.
Hu Shi ? ? (1891-1962). Chinese poet and scholar. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, he championed the modern Chinese literary language based on vernacular. His works include Outline of Chinese Philosophy (1919) and Chinese Renaissance (1934). He was ambassador to the US from 1938 to 1942.
Karlgren, Bernhard (1889-1978). Swedish sinologist. His works include Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese (1923), Glosses on the Book of Odes (1946, 1964), and Grammata Serica (1957) of which EP owned copies of the first two.
Kasper, John (b. 1929). American publisher. A graduate from Columbia he began visiting and corresponding with EP in 1950. At EP's instigation he and David Horton brought out the Square Dollar series. He later became a Nazi sympathizer and a segregationist.
Kimball, Dudley. American printer. He founded the Blue Ridge Mountain Press in Boonton, New Jersey. From 1949 to 1951 he worked on EP's Confucian Odes manuscript with an English translation, a Chinese sound key, and a seal text.
King Wen ? ? (11th century bc). Father to China's third dynasty Zhou. After capture and imprisonment, he continued to fight the Shang, a dynasty eventually overthrown in the hands of his son King Wu. As one of Confucius' ideal model rulers, he is listed in Canto 53.
Kwock, C. H. ? ? ? (b. 1920). Honolulu-born journalist. As editor of Chinese World (San Francisco) he requested a message from EP to be printed on Confucius' birthday. The message released in Chinese World 23 September 1954 was ''Kung is to China as water to fishes. '' In 1980 he co-founded with painter Walter Leong and poet Gary Gach the Li Po Society of America. He is co-translator with Vincent McHugh of Old Friend from Far Away (1980) and translator of Tiger Rider and Other Chinese Epigrams (1986).
Laozi ? ? (6th century bc). Ancient Chinese philosopher. The Taoist classic Daode jing is attributed to him. He is listed in Canto 54. See Stephen Mitchell's Tao Te Ching (1988).
Laughlin, James (1914-99). American poet and publisher. In 1936, at EP's instigation, he founded the publishing company New Directions. For six decades he was EP's chief American publisher. The EP/Laughlin relation is chronicled in David Gordon's Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1994).
Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1884-1957). English painter and writer. He and EP first met in London in 1909. Together they launched the Vorticist movement in 1914. Lewis is listed in Canto 80/526. The EP/Lewis relation is detailed in Timothy Materer's Pound/Lewis: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis (1985).
Li Bo (Bai) ? ? (701-62). Tang poet. He is often considered one of the two greatest Chinese poets along with Du Fu (712-70). Eleven of his poems are presented in EP's Cathay (1915). For his work in translation, see David Hinton's Selected Poems of Li Po (1998). For a discussion of Li Bo and Du Fu, see Sam Hamill's Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry (1993).
232 glossary
MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982). American poet and dramatist. He first met EP in Paris about 1923. In 1944-5, he was US assistant secretary of state, and in 1949 he became a Harvard professor. He lobbied for EP's release from St Elizabeths Hospital.
McNaughton, William (b. 1933). American scholar. In 1953 he transferred from the University of Missouri to Georgetown to be close to EP with whom he studied Confucianism and edited Strike (1955-6). After taking a Ph. D. at Yale (1965), he helped found Chinese programs at Oberlin, Denison, and Wabash, and the program in trans- lation and interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong, where he taught from 1986 to 1998.
Mencius ? ? (c. 372-289bc). The greatest Confucian thinker after Confucius himself. His teachings are preserved in Mencius, the last of the Confucian Four Books. EP discusses Mencius in ''Mang Tsze'' (SP, 81-97). His abridged translation of Mencius 2, ''Mencius, or the Economist,'' appeared in New Iconograph (New York) in 1947.
Mori Kainan (1863-1911). Japanese scholar of Chinese literature. He gave Ernest Fenollosa private lessons of Chinese poetry in 1899-1901. EP calls his Cathay ''Transla- tions . . . from the notes of the late Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga'' (Personae, 130).
Qu Yuan ? ? (c. 340-c. 278 bc). Ancient Chinese poet. As minister to King Huai of Chu he was banished to the far south. His works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, and Nine Pieces. EP's ''After Ch'u Yuan'' (1914) is a variant on no. 9 of Nine Songs. For Qu Yuan's career and poetry in translation, see David Hawkes' The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (1985).
Rock, Joseph F. (1884-1962). American botanist and anthropologist. He lived with the Naxi people in southwest China for twenty-seven years. His works, ''The Romance of 2K'a-2ma ? -1gyu-3mi-2gkyi'' (1939) and ''The 2Muan 1Bpo ? Ceremony'' (1948), play a role in EP's late cantos. The EP/Rock relation is treated in Emily Mitchell Wallace's '' 'Why Not Spirits? '--'The Universe Is Alive': Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus'' (Ezra Pound and China, ed. Zhaoming Qian, 2003).
Santayana, George (1863-1952). Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and Harvard professor. After retirement in 1912 he moved to Italy. He and EP met in Rome and Venice in 1939. He is listed in Cantos 80, 81, 95, and 100.
Scheiwiller, Vanni (1934-99). EP's Italian publisher. His father Giovanni Scheiwiller (1889-1965) issued EP's Confucius: Digest of the Analects (1937). He published the first Italian editions of Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959).
Shun ? (c. 23rd century bc). Legendary Chinese ruler after Yao and one of Confucius' ideal model kings. He is alluded to in Cantos 53, 56, 58, 74, and 106.
Sima Qian ? ? ? (c. 145-86 bc). Grand Historiographer under the Emperor Wu of Han (EP's Liu Ch'e; r. 140-87 bc). His Historical Records chronicles the Chinese history from ancient times to his own day. For Sima Qian's Chinese history in translation, see Raymond Dawson's Historical Records (1994).
Spann, Marcella (Booth) (b. 1933). American scholar. She traveled with EP and DP from Washington to Italy in 1958. In Italy she and EP co-edited Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry (1965).
glossary 2 3 3
Stock, Noel (b. 1929). Australian journalist, poet, and university teacher in the US (University of Toledo). He founded the Poundian magazine Edge (Melbourne, 1956-8) and authored The Life of Ezra Pound (1970).
Sun, Veronica Huilan ? ? ? (b. 1927). Immigrating from China, Sun worked on an MA in English at the Catholic University of America from the fall of 1950 until the fall of 1952. In 1955 she joined the Ford Foundation in New York. Her letters to EP (1953-7, Beinecke) document when she visited St Elizabeths Hospital, left for New York, and got married.
Swabey, Reverend Henry (1916-96). Anglican vicar in England and Canada.
He corresponded with EP at intervals from 1935. His translation of Thaddeus Zielinski's ''The Sibyl'' appeared in Edge, 2 (1956).
Tao Qian ? ? or Tao Yuanming ? ? ? (365-427). Chinese poet. EP presents his poem ''The Hovering Cloud'' in Cathay and alludes to his prose piece ''The Peach Blossom Fountain'' in Canto 84/558: ''T'ao Ch'ien heard the old Dynasty's music j as it might be at the Peach-blossom Fountain. '' For Tao Qian's career and work in transla- tion, see A. R. David's Tao Yuan-Ming, AD 365-427 (1983).
Tucci, Giuseppe (1894-1984). Italian orientalist. In 1933 he helped found the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO). He was the author of Indo-Tibetica I (1932) and other books.
Wang Shouren ? ? ? or Wang Yangming ? ? ? (1472-1529). The most important neo-Confucian philosopher after Zhu Xi (1130-1200). For a discussion of his neo-Confucianism, see Tu Wei-ming's Neo Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1976).
Wang Wei ? ? (699-759). Tang government official, poet, painter, and musician. EP's ''Epigraph to 'Four poems of Departure' '' in Cathay (1915) is a variant on a short lyric by him. For Wang Wei's career and work in translation, see Pauline Yu's The Poetry of Wang Wei (1980). For the EP/Wang Wei relation, see Zhaoming Qian's Orientalism and Modernism (1995).
Wilson, Thomas James (1902-69). American publisher. Educated at University of North Carolina and Oxford, he served as the director of Harvard University Press from 1947 to 1967.
Xu Shen ? ? (c. 58-147). Ancient Chinese lexicographer. His Shuowen Jiezi Dictionary (Explication of Graphs and Analysis of Characters, ad 100-21) lists 9,353 characters under 540 radicals. It started the tradition of etymological analysis.
Yao ? (c. 23rd century bc). Legendary Chinese ruler and one of Confucius' ideal model kings. He is honored in Cantos 53, 56, 58, 74, and 106.
Zhu Xi ? ? (1130-1200). Song neo-Confucian philosopher. He prepared the Confucian Four Books. His Outline and Details of the Comprehensive Mirror yielded De Mailla's Histoire g ? ene ? rale de la Chine, the main source of Cantos 52-61. He is listed in Cantos 80 and 99.
Zhuangzi ? ? (c. 369-286 bc). Ancient Chinese philosopher. His teachings are preserved in Zhuangzi. EP's ''Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic'' (1916) is a variant on Li Bo's recreation of Zhuangzi, 2. 13. For Zhuangzi in translation, see Burton Watson's Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (1996).
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INDEX
Items appearing as illustrations and notes are indexed in bold: e. g. 86 i, 168 n. An asterisk following a surname indicates an entry in the Glossary.
Abyssinia 30, 31
Adams*, Brooks 52, 119, 191 Adams, John (US president) 56, 155 Aeschylus 120
Agassiz*, Louis 52, 77, 87, 119, 129 Agenda (London) 161 anti-Semitism 18, 173, 181, 195 Ariga* Nagao xix, 17
Aristotle 78, 84, 218
Atatu ? rk, Mustafa Kemal 177
Atti, Isotta degli 129
Auden, W. H. 192
Avicenna, see Ibn S ? ? na ?
Babbitt, Irving 81 Baller, F. W. 81
Sacred Edict (Kangxi) 46, 172-3, 183-4, 191 Banca St Giorgio 30, 31
Baudelaire, Charles 52
BBC 142, 159
Beijing (Peking) University xxi, 1, 41, 96 Belden, Jack: China Shakes the World 51, 52, 55,
59, 60
Benton*, Thomas Hart 144
Blackstone*, William 85, 119
Blake, William 186
Bo (Bai)* Juyi (Po Chu-yi) 186, 192
Boccaccio, Giovanni 52
Book of Changes, see Yi jing
Book of History, see Shu jing
Book of Odes, see Shi jing
Book of Rites, see Li ji
Book on Filial Piety, see Xiao jing
Brancusi, Constantin 142
Bridson, D. G. 159
Brooks, Cleanth 136
Brooks, Van Wyck: America's Coming-of-Age 80 Browning, Robert 168
''Sordello'' 52
Buddhism ('Foe') xviii, 53, 75 Bunting, Basil 59
Bynner*, Witter 167 Byzantium 177, 188
Cafe ? Dante 129
Cairns*, Huntington 126, 128, 129, 130
Calvin, John 116
Cambridge University 134
Carter, Thomas 167
Catholic University of America (Washington,
DC) 192, 196-8 Catullus 186
Cavalcanti, Guido 78, 140
Cecil (Gascoyne-Cecil), Edgar Algernon
Robert 33, 34, 35
Ce ? line, Louis-Ferdinand 65
Chang, Carsun (Zhang Junmai) xxi, 96-7, 105,
148, 166, 171, 198
and Canto 86: 105
and Canto 89: 106
and EP xiv, 96-7, 105-6
The Development of Neo-Confucian
Thought 102, 103, 105, 166 LETTERS from 102-3
on EP's Confucian translations 106
Chao, Tse-chiang (Zhao Ziqiang) 103, 151, 152, 161-2, 180
and EP xiv, xv, 161-2, 165
and David Wang 167, 172, 178, 192
Du Fu translations 161, 165, 167, 168, 171 LETTERS from 165-71
on Guan Zhong 162, 167-8, 169, 170, 192
Chatel, John 193
Chaucer, Geoffrey 186, 192
Chavannes, Edouard 48
Chen,W. C. 7,8
cheng ? (sincerity) 97, 128
Cheng Yichuan (Ch'eng I-ch'uan) 49, 51 Cheou-sin or Shou-sin, see Zhou, King Chiang*Kai-shek 18,23,24,25,26,27,29,30,31,
33, 56, 59, 96, 180, 192
Ch'ien-lung, see Qianlong
chih, see zhi
China Inland Mission (publishers) 81 China's War of Resistance against Japan
(1937-45) xvi, 18, 19, 26, 27, 34, 35
China Year Book (1939) 32
Chinese characters ('ideograms') xiii, 9, 19, 29,
39, 41, 52, 88
EP's early conception of 17, 37-8
EP's revised conception of xx-i, 42, 54, 58,
59, 62, 74, 77, 89, 94-5, 207-28
236
index
Chinese characters (cont. )
EP's use of xx, 23, 24, 25, 33, 75, 94 etymology of 57, 61, 78-9
phonetics of 48, 70, 75, 77, 157
radical systems of 42, 51, 60, 61, 68, 75, 76,
77, 79
romanization of 63, 70, 156
Chinese poetry xiii, 1, 9-10, 15, 95, 136, 165, 168 Chinese World (San Francisco) 103, 179, 180 Chlodwig Hohenlohe, see Viktor, Chlodwig Karl Christianity 3, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 74, 83, 117,
120, 126, 127, 133, 138 Chu Hsi, see Zhu Xi
Ch'u Yuan, see Qu Yuan
Chuang Chou, see Zhuang Zhou or Zhuangzi Chuci (Ch'u-tz'u) ('Southern Anthology') xvii,
Dalai Lama 116-7
Daniel, Arnaut 221
Dante Alighieri 52, 87, 89, 94, 129, 137, 186, 208 Dartmouth College 172, 173, 175
Davenport, Guy 161
de Chambrun, Mme. 56
De Feo, Luciano 28, 29, 30
de Mailla*, Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac:
Histoire ge ? ne ? rale de la Chine 48, 90, 198
de Rachewiltz*, Boris 71, 147, 153, 204 de Rachewilts*, Igor 51, 64, 65, 84, 153 de Rachewiltz, Mary 9, 64, 90, 155, 204 Del Mar*, Alexander 119
Devaney, James 133
Dewey, John 190
Dewey, Thomas 59
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot 178 Douglas, Gavin 58
Dream of the Red Chamber 186
Du* Fu (Tu Fu) 151, 161, 165, 167, 168, 171, 186,
189, 192 Dudek, Louis 195
Duffy, Chase 139, 140, 148, 159 Duke University 184, 185 Dulles, John Foster 193
Eberhart, Richard 192
Eden, Anthony (British prime minister) 192 Edge (Melbourne) 161, 172, 187, 189, 190, 191, 195 Egoist (London) xv, 2-3, 7
Eisenhower, Milton 108
Eisenstein, Sergei 132
Eliot, Thomas Stearns ('Possum') xiii, 52, 61,
89, 135, 178, 179
and EP's Odes project 116, 127, 128, 131, 133-4
Elisseeff, Serge 81
Elliott, William Yandell 87 Ellmann, Richard 55
Emery, Clark 130, 167
Erigena, John Scotus 59, 61, 62 Espey, John 167
eugenics 173, 178, 181, 191
Faber and Faber (publishers) 116, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, 140
Fang, Achilles (Fang Zhitong) 40-1, 90, 161, 167 and EP xiv, 40-2, 107-9, 180
Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms 66, 67,
71, 72-3
'errata' for Canto 85: 153-5
Introduction to Classic Anthology xvi, 108,
144, 146, 150
LETTERS from 45, 47-50, 52-3, 55, 57-8, 60-
2, 63 n. , 63, 65-6, 69-70, 71-2, 73-4, 75-6,
73, 74, 79
Chung Yung, see Zhong yong
Chunqiu (Ch'un-chiu) (Spring and Autumn)
19, 34,
47, 66
Cihai dictionary 61, 74
Cixi (Tse` Hsi) (Chinese empress dowager) 189 Columbia University 125, 136, 161
Commercial Press Chinese-English Dictionary xiv,
225
Confucianism 26, 27, 28, 59, 83, 84, 176, 186
and legalism 162
and sinology 64, 119
and Taoism xviii, 122
anti-Confucianism xvi, 2, 102
EP as Confucian xiii, 1, 2-3, 52, 55, 127, 128 see also neo-Confucianism
Confucius (Kong* Qiu; K'ung Fu-tzu) 103, 119, 120, 124, 129, 142, 145, 157, 158, 197
on Guan Zhong 168
on materialism 2-3 Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim 178 Contini, Ennio 118, 119 Cookson, William 195 Copernicus 127, 154 Copland, Aaron 126
Corsica 30, 31
Couvreur, Se ? raphin 154, 158
Chou King xv, 50, 96, 135, 153 Li Ki 46, 47, 90
Tso Tchouan 47
Cummings*, Edward Estlin ('Kumrad') 123, 124, 129, 130, 131
Eimi 55
on EP 132
Cushing, Caleb 141, 143, 144
Da xue (Great Learning) xvii, 24, 25, 213
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Great Digest; Ta
Hio; Ta S'eu
78-9, 81-3, 86, 115, 116-7 n. , 117-8, 121-2, 122-3, 125, 126-7, 128-9, 130-1, 132 n. , 132-3, 135-6, 138, 139, 140-1, 143-4, 145-6, 147 n. , 148-9, 150, 151-2, 153-5, 158-9, 160
LETTERS to 45-7, 50-1, 53-4, 55-6, 58-60, 62-3, 63-5, 66-9, 70-1, 72-3, 74-5, 76-8, 79- 81, 84-5, 87, 115-7, 118-21, 122, 123-5, 125-6, 127-8, 129-30, 131-2, 133-5, 136-8, 138-9, 140, 141-3, 144-5, 146-8, 149-50, 151, 152-3, 156-8, 160
''A Note on the Stone-Classics'' xv, 41, 45, 69
on Chinese dictionaries 48, 49, 57, 61, 65-6, 81, 151
on four tuan 65-6, 81-2, 83, 86
on Shu jing 47, 70
Fang, Ilse 52, 151, 160
Fang, Josephine Marie Riss 197 Fang, P. H. (Fang Baoxian) 197
and EP xiv, 196-9
LETTERS from 203, 204, 205 LETTERS to 203, 204
on EP's use of Lijiang/Naxi 204, 205
Farrar, Robert 150
fascism xvi, xviii, 18, 56, 173 Fenollosa*, Ernest Francisco 50, 87,
148, 197
The Chinese Written Character xix-xx, 42, 106,
148, 197
East and West 48
manuscripts and notes xiii, 1, 50, 88, 90, 95,
177, 207
on the Chinese character xix, 42, 106
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil xiii, 1
First Emperor of Ch'in, see Qin Shihuang Five Classics 66
see also Chunqiu, Li ji, Shi jing, Shu jing, and Yi jing.
Ford Foundation 118
Four Books xiii, xvii, 1, 2, 9, 18, 19, 25, 47, 56,
64, 66, 70, 89
EP on xviii, 42, 53, 56, 62, 64, 119, 122, 123,
124, 129
see also Da xue, Zhong yong, Lun yu, and
Mencius.
four tuan ? ? 42, 64, 65-6, 66-7 as theme in Cantos xviii, 42
Funk, Walter 30, 31
'Gemisto,' see Plethon, George Gemistus Gesell, Silvio 56
Giles, Herbert A. : A History of Chinese
Literature 1, 53, 60, 73
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 47
Giovanninni, Giovanni 196-8, 203
Gordon, David 161, 172
Goullart, Peter: Forgotten Kingdom 196-7, 195,
199, 204
Graves, Robert Ranke 190
Gu Yewang (Ku Yeh-wang): Yupian (Yu ? -pien) 57,
79
Guan* Zhong (Kuan Chung) xvi, 162, 168, 169,
170, 192
Guangxu (Chinese emperor) 189 Guanyin (Kuanon) 124
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 121
Hare, William Loftus: ''Chinese Egoism'' 2 Harvard Summer Institute 87
Harvard University 41, 55, 59, 62, 71, 129, 152, 155 Harvard University Press 89, 107-9, 115, 126, 133,
150, 159, 160
Harvard-Yenching Institute 40, 64, 66, 158 Hawkes, John 115, 116, 123, 127, 129, 130, 131, 139,
140, 143, 155
Hawley*, Willis Meeker 40, 46, 51, 62, 75, 107,
157, 170, 172, 180 LETTERS from 40, 157 n.
Herodotus 48
Hightower, James Robert 73 Hitler, Adolf 30, 31, 173, 191 Hokusai Katsushika 142
Homer 186
Horton*, T. David 48, 107, 173, 191 hsiao, see xiao
hsin, see xin
Hsu ? Shen, see Xu Shen
Hu* Shi (Shih) 102, 117
Hudson Review (New York) 49, 151,
155
Hughes, E. R. 74
Hughes, Glenn 10
Hull, Cordell 56
Hummel, Arthur William 46, 49
Humphries, Rolf 191
Hung, William: Tu Fu, China's Greatest Poet 152
i, see yi
I Ching, see Yi jing
Ibn S ? ? na ? (Avicenna) 59, 61
EP/A. Fang debate about
86
80, 81-2, 83, 84, 85,
see also ren, yi, li, zhi French, Gloria 72, 77, 80, 95 Frobenius*, Leo 154, 207, 212
widow of 204 Frost, Robert 190, 192
index 237 Fulbright Fellowships ('fullBlights') 87
238
index
Ibsen, Henrik 191
Ideograms, see Chinese characters
Imagism xiii, 125, 186
Iong Ching, see Yongzheng
Isotta, see Atti, Isotta degli
Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East
(IsMEO) 18, 71
James, Henry 3, 186
'Jas,' see Laughlin, James
Jastrow, Morris 134
Jeans, Roger 96
Jefferson, Thomas (US president) 105, 121, 155 jen, see ren
Jie, King 2
jing ? (respect) 42, 49, 51, 52, 64, 65, 75, 76, 94 Jones, Tom 185
Joyce, James 178, 179, 191
Jung, Angela Chih-ying (Rong Zhiying;
Palandri) 11, 80, 85, 88, 90
and EP xiv, 88-90
''Ezra Pound and China'' 88 ''Homage to a Confucian Poet'' 89 LETTERS to 93-5
Juvenal 49
Kang and Liang Reform (1898) 189
Kangxi (K'ang Hsi) (Chinese emperor): ''Sacred
Edict'' xiii, 46
Kangxi (K'ang-hsi) Dictionary 42, 57, 79, 189 Karlgren*, Bernhard: Analytical Dictionary 49,
51, 67, 158
Glosses on the Book of Odes 71, 207-8, 224, 227
Kasper*, John 107-8, 125-6, 128, 173, 181, 191 Kemal, see Atatu ? rk, Mustafa Kemal Kennedy, George xix, 167
Kenner, Hugh xix, 11, 67, 138, 145
Kerr, Gordon 194
K'ienlung, see Qianlong
Kimball*,Dudley 68,69,70,72,107,116,127,129 Kissinger, Henry 87
Kitasono, Katue 18
LETTERfrom 152n.
Ku Yeh-wang, see Gu Yewang
Kuan Chung, see Guan Zhong
Kuanon, see Guanyin
'Kumrad,' see Cummings, Edward Estlin K'ung or K'ung Fu-tzu, see Confucius Kunze, Reiner 151
Kwock*, C. H. xiv, 97, 103, 167
LETTERS from 104
La Drie`re, Craig 115, 203 Lady, Lee 190
Lampman, Rex Herbert 187
Laozi (Lao-tzu; orig. Li* Er) xviii, 75, 120, 121, 122 Lash, Kenneth 122, 127
Laughlin*, James ('Jas') 40-1, 68, 71, 107, 128, 171
LETTERS from 41, 45 n.
League of Nations 30, 31, 33, 34, 87
Leahy, William Daniel 56
Leary, Lewis 128, 130
Lebeck, Anne 187, 189, 191
Legge, James: as translator 37, 38, 53, 80, 106,
143, 198
bilingual Chinese Classics 47-8, 50, 59, 70,
95, 96, 104
bilingual Four Books 18-9, 46, 52, 59, 67, 81,
89, 95, 137, 148
Leibniz, Gottfried W. 59, 62
Leiden Mission 34, 35
Lewis*, Percy Wyndham 117, 134, 178, 179, 184
Rotting Hill 117
The Writer and the Absolute 117 The Revenge for Love 124
li ? (propriety) 66, 80, 85
Li* Bo (Bai) (Li Po) 3, 88, 120, 152, 161, 186, 189,
192, 197
Li ji (Li Ki)(Book of Rites) 28, 47, 66 Lijiang (Lichiang) 196-99, 204
ling ? ('sensibility') 96, 97
Lingnan University 161
Li Si (Li Ssu) 76
Listener (London) 176
Little Review (New York) 3
Liu, James xix
Liu Xiang (Liu Hsiang) 74
Liu Xie: Wenxin diaolong (Wen-hsin
tiao-lung) 121 London Times 176 Lowell, Amy 117
Lu Ji (Lu Ch'i; Lu Ki): Wen Fu 74, 121, 136 Luce, Henry 59
Luchini, Alberto 37, 38
Lun yu (Analects) xvii, 23, 24-5, 57, 64, 66, 84
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Analects Lyden, Nora Devereaux 191
MacLeish*, Archibald 48, 74, 108, 123, 144, 145 Macmillan (publishers) 107
McNaughton*, William xix, 96-7, 103, 105, 161,
165, 167
'Make it new,' see xin
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain 178 Mao Zedong 96
Maritain, Jacques 87
Martell, Charles 195
Martinelli, Sheri 165, 193, 195
Masters, Edgar Lee 191
Mastrangelo, Aida Juliett 175, 176
Mathews, R. H. : Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary xiv,42,54,55,58,61,65-6,67,73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 118, 122, 137, 138, 150, 152, 158, 172, 176, 187
Matthiessen, Francis Otto 87, 120 Maverick, Lewis xv-vi, 162, 170, 194 Mei Dingzuo (Mei Ting-tso): Zihui
dictionary 79
Mencius (Meng* Ke) 38, 47, 67, 86, 129, 172, 176 Mencius xviii, 19, 25, 28, 33, 38, 42, 62, 65, 66, 80,
84, 124, 136, 161
Mengozzi, Narciso 155
Meridiano di Roma 35, 36
Meyer, Eugene Isaac ('Meyerblatt') 182 Milton, John 168, 178, 182
modernism xiii, 3
Monroe, Harriet 118
Monumenta Serica (Beijing) 41, 74 Moore, Merril 150
Morgan, Frederick 148
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. 136 Morgenthau, Henry, Sr. 136
Mori* Kainan xvii, 17, 88
Morrison, Robert: Dictionary of the
Chinese Language xiv, xvii, 9, 37, 38, 213 Mullins, Eustace 168
Muratori, L. A. 155
Mussolini, Benito 56, 68, 154, 173
Na-khi, see Naxi
Nanjing (Nanking) Treaty (1842) 143 Nation (New York) 195
Naxi (Na-khi) xv, 196-9
rites of xix, 198
script of 197, 198-9
neo-Confucianism 65, 96-7, 102, 103, 105-6 New Directions (publishers) 40, 69, 107,
161, 173
New Mexico Quarterly 118, 127, 128 New Orleans Poetry Journal 175 New Statesman (London) 176 New Yorker 86
New York Times 120
New York Times Book Review 126 New York University 161
Nine (London) 161
Noh drama xiii, 1, 207
Noigandres (Sao Paulo) 140 Norman, Charles 126, 132 Norton, Charles Eliot 156
Ocellus 59
Odes, see Shi jing
O'Grady, Desmond 195 Ohio Wesleyan University 1
One Hundred and Eight Bandits (Water Margin) 186
'1000 family,' see Tang Song qian jia shi opium traffic 32, 34, 35
Opium War (1839-42) 143
Orage, Alfred Richard 137
orientalism 3
Ouang-iu-p'uh, see Wang Youpu Overholser, Winfred 45, 46, 140 Ovid 186
Owen, Peter 130, 135
Paige, Douglas Duncan 48, 185, 189
Paine, Thomas 84
Palandri, Angela Jung, see Jung, Angela Chih-
ying
Pauthier, Guillaume: Les quatre livres xiii, 1,
2, 3
Pearce, Donald 176
Pearson, Norman Holmes 161, 166, 167, 194 Pe ? tain, Philip 56
Plethon, George Gemistus ('Gemisto') 183 Po Chu-yi, see Bo (Bai) Juyi
Poems by a Thousand Tang and Song Poets, see Tang Song qian jia shi
Poetry (Chicago) 119, 189
Poetry Taos (Taos, NM) 191
Ponsot, Marie 187, 191
'Possom,' see Eliot, Thomas Stearn
Pound, Dorothy Shakespear 2, 8, 9, 15, 41, 53,
89, 104, 105, 148, 152, 156, 166, 167, 168, 169,
170, 171, 189, 193
postscripts by 69, 72, 134, 141, 149 LETTERS from 41, 197
Pound, Ezra Loomis
WORKS, EDITIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS:
ABC of Reading 177 ''After Ch'u Yuan'' 73
Cantos 40, 55, 88, 187, 188
Canto 4: 3, 73
Canto 13: xiii, xix, 3, 9-10, 49
Canto 49: ('Seven Lakes Canto') xv, 9,
10-11, 15-7 Canto 51: 23 Canto 53: 48, 50-1 Canto 54: 76, 78 Canto 61: 184 Canto 74: 57 Canto 77: 19, 24-5 Canto 78: 19, 33 Canto 85: 42, 153-5 Canto 86: 97, 105
index 239
240
index
Canto 87: 42
Canto 89: 97, 106
Canto 93: 42
Canto 96: 172
Canto 98: 198
Canto 99: xx, 42
Canto 101: xv, 197
Canto 104: xv
Canto 106: 162
Canto 110: xv, 89
Canto 112: xv, 197
Canto 113: xv
Cantos 52-71: xiii
Cantos 52-61 (Chinese History Cantos): 40,
88, 90, 129
Cantos 74-84 (Pisan Cantos): 19, 41, 128 Cantos 85-95 (Rock-Drill): xxi, 41, 96, 97 Cantos 85-6: xv, xvii
Cantos 96-109 (Thrones): xxi, 162 Cantos 98-99: xiii
Cantos 110-7 (Drafts and Fragments): xv Cathay xiii, 1, 3, 17, 73, 88
''China and 'Voice of America''' 161
Confucian Translations
Analects xvi,xvii,40,49,52,57,64,88,95,104, 106, 145, 149, 162, 169, 197
Chiung Iung xvii
ClassicAnthology xiii,xvi,40,108,135,148,150 The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot
xvi, 40, 41, 63, 69, 86, 88, 107,
118, 131
Ta Hio xvi, 9, 88
Ta S'eu xvii, 19, 38, 59, 64, 71
''Donna mi prega'' (Cavalcanti) 78, 116 ''The First Year of 'Pagany''' 136
Guide to Kulchur 117
''I Bramini e l'usura'' 35 IfThisBeTreason. . . 65
''Imaginary Letter VII'' 3
''An Immorality'' 126
Introductory note to ''The Causes and
Remedy of the Poverty of China'' 2 Literary Essays 3
''Mang Tsze'' 26 n. , 189
Manuscripts
''Preliminary Survey'' xxi, 52, 207-28 three-way scholar's edition of Classic
Anthology xvii, 68, 89-90, 107-8, 115, 116, 123, 127, 132, 141, 144-5, 146, 151, 156, 157, 158-9, 160, 197
untitled Chinese poem 75, 76, 77, 89, 93-4
'Noh' or Accomplishment 1 ''Papyrus'' 133
''Patria Mia'' 118 Personae 187
''The Seafarer'' 94
''Song of the Bowmen of Shu'' 73 Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti 140 Sophokles: Women of Trachis
(TRAXINIAI) 142, 147
A Visiting Card 115
''The Words of Ming Mao'' xvi, 2
Pound, Homer Loomis 1, 8 LETTERS to 15-17
Pound, Isabel Weston: LETTER to 15 Pound Newsletter (Berkeley) 139, 140 Pound, Omar Shakespear 108, 159 Pound's screen book 9, 10, 12 i, 15, 17 Presley, Elvis 190, 192
Princeton University 115, 117, 136 Propertius, Sextus 186
Psellus, Michael Constantine 188
Qian, Zhaoming: Modernist Response to Chinese Art xx, 10
Qianlong (K'ienlung; Ch'ien-lung) (Chinese emperor) 45, 69
Qin Shihuang (First Emperor of Ch'in) 162, 178
Qinghua University 18, 40
Qu* Yuan (Ch'u Yuan) 61, 73, 79
Randall, John H. 125
Ransom, John Crowe 191
Rattray, David 173, 195
Reck, Michael 152
Reid, Ralph 182, 185
ren (jen) ? (humanity) 42, 53, 66, 80, 81, 86,
120, 166
Republic of China 1, 19, 25, 96, 199, 204 Rexroth, Kenneth 192
Riccardi, Raffaello 30, 31
Ritchie, Eleanor 194
Rivera, Francisco 179, 180
Rock*, Joseph F. xv, 180, 196-99,
203, 204 LETTER from 196
Rodman, Sheldon 191
Romney, Barbara 189, 191
Roosevelt, Theodore (US president) 56 Rudge, Olga 90
Russell, Bertrand 62
Russell, Peter 48, 130, 161
Russian Revolution (1917) 23, 24 Rustichello da Pisa 156
''Sacred Edict'' 45, 46, 172, 182, 184, 191 see also Baller, F. W. ; Kangxi
Sagetrieb 134, 154
Said, Edward 3
St Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, DC) 40-1,
46, 88, 90, 96-7, 105, 108-9, 161-2, 165, 172,
197-8
St Victor, Richard 106
Sanburg, Carl 190, 192
Santayana*, George 59, 62, 75, 80, 156 Scarfoglio, Carlo 147, 211
Schwartz, Delmore 192
Scheiwiller*, Vanni 90, 145, 149, 195 Scott, Tom xiii
Scott, Walter 156
segregation 173, 192
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher 118 Shakespeare, William 178, 186 shangzhi ? ? (self-cultivation) 25 Shapiro, Karl 191
Sharp, Bob 181, 190, 192-3
Sharrock, Roger 176
Shaw, George Bernard 176, 191
Shi jing (Shih)(Book of Odes) 46, 52,
53, 66, 115, 122, 137, 142, 208, 224
EP on 130
EP's study of 18, 70, 177
EP's three-way manuscript of 42, 62, 65, 68,
69, 70, 72, 89-90, 107-9, 115, 120, 123, 126,
130, 133, 135, 151, 152, 157, 160
EP's translation of 95, 107-9, 123, 131, 139, 141,
Stanford University 103
Stilwell, Joseph W. : The Stilwell Papers 46, 51, 56 Stevenson, Adlai 192
Stock*, Noel 161, 167, 172, 183, 190, 191, 195 Strike (Washington, DC) 161
Sullivan, Tom 191
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays 120
Sun*, Veronica Huilan (Sun Huilan) xiv, xx,
120, 148, 149 Sun Yat-sen 19, 26
Sun Yat-sen Revolution (1911) 1, 199, 204 Sun Yat-sen University 161
Sung, Far-san T. (Song Faxiang) xxi, 1
and EP xiv, xvi, 1-3
''The Causes and Remedy of the Poeverty of
China'' 2-3, 7, 8
China proposal for EP 1-2, 6, 7, 8 LETTERS from 6-8
Sung, Mildred Y. 7
Sung, T. V. 56
Sung, Z. D. : The Symbols of Yi King 51, 210, 240 Swabey*, Henry 56
Tanaka Giichi ( Japanese prime minister) 32-3 Tang Song qian jia shi (Poems by a Thousand Tang
and Song Poets; '1000 family') xvii, 54, 55 Tang Stone-Classics 40, 43 i, 46, 68, 122
Tao* Qian (T'ao Yu ? an-ming) 61, 192
T'ao Yu ? an-ming, see Tao Qian
Taoism xviii, 53, 121-2
Tate, Allen 192
Taylor, Richard 11
Tchu, Sig. (Zhu Ying) 27, 28, 29, 35, 39, 71 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 77
Terrel, Carroll F. xv, 196
Thackeray, William Makepeace: The
Newcomes 49 Theobald, John 161
LETTERS to 104 n. , 162
thirteen classics xviii, 41, 46, 66 Thoreau, Henry David 67
Thseng-sie, see Zeng Xi
Tolstoy, Leo 49, 51
Tsang, O. Z. : A Complete Chinese-English
Dictionary xxi, 48, 207, 208, 211, 213, 214,
216, 218, 224
Tschumi, Raymond 116
Tse` Hsi, see Cixi
Tseng Hsi, see Zeng Xi
Tseng, Pao Swen (Zeng Baosun) xxi, 9, 10, 11,
171, 190
and EP 9-11
as source of Canto 49: xv, 10-1, 15-7 ''Changsha'' 10
''Xiangxiang'' 10
176, 188 seal text of 112 i, 157
62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 107-8,
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Classic Anthology Shih, see Shi jing
Shu jing (Book of History) 46-7, 52, 66, 70, 122,
136, 146, 176
as source of Rock-Drill cantos xiii, xv, 41, 96
Shun (Yu* Shun) xiii, 136
Sima* Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien) 48, 103, 169 Sino-Japanese relation xvi
EP on 24-5, 28, 30-1, 33, 36
Fengchi Yang on 26-7, 29-30, 32, 34-5 sinology 17, 47, 74, 75, 87, 118, 132, 151
and Confucianism 119
Song Yu (Sung Yu ? ; So ? -Gyoku) 3, 73
Sophokles 87, 89, 94, 142, 147
'Southern Anthology,' see Chuci
Spann*, Marcella (Booth) 168, 172, 178, 191, 193 Spender, Stephen 191
Spring and Autumn, see Chunqiu
Square Dollar series 107, 149, 182
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, see Sima Qian
Stalin, Joseph 23, 24
index 241
242
index
Tseng, Yueh-nung (Zeng Yuenong) 11 Tu Fu, see Du Fu
Tuan Szetsun 119
Tucci*, Giuseppe 37, 71, 84
Tunghai University 11 Twayne (publishers) 107
UNESCO 196
United Nations xxi, 96
University of Chicago 1
University of London 8, 10 University of Pennsylvania 136, 139 University of Rome 18
University of Washington 10, 88 usury 18, 23, 24, 30, 31
Valeri, Diego 24, 25
Valle, Pedro A. del 73
Van Buren, Martin (US president) 155
Vicari, Giambattista 147
Viktor, Chlodwig Karl (German chancellor) 67 Voltaire 124, 178
Waley, Arthur xviii, 106, 120
Wang, David (Wang Shenfu) 11, 167, 172
and EP xiv, xvii, 172-3
The Goblet Moon 175
''The Grandfather Cycle'' 188, 189, 191 LETTERS from 175-6, 178-9, 181, 182 n. ,
186-7, 188-9, 190 n, 191-3, 195, 195 n. LETTERS to 176-8, 179-80, 181-6, 187-8,
189-90 193-5
''Tang & Sung Poems'' 172, 184, 185
Wang Jingwei (Wang Chin Wei) 27, 28 Wang* Shouren (Wang Shou-jen; Wang Yang-
ming) 102, 142
Wang* Wei 178, 186, 192
Wang Yang-ming, see Wang Shouren
Wang Youpu (Ouang-iu-p'uh) 173, 183
Water Margin, see One Hundred and Eight Bandits Wen, King (orig. Ji* Chang) 48-9, 51, 103, 208 WHIB ('Wheat in bread party') 173 Whitehead, Alfred 62
Whitman, Walt 136, 139
William II (German emperor) 33
Williams, Oscar 191
Williams, Samuel Wells: Syllabic
Dictionary of the Chinese Language 48, 54
Williams, William Carlos 173, 185, 187, 189, 191, 195
LETTER from 185 n.
Wilson, Harriet 136
Wilson, McNair: The Gipsy-Queen of Paris 119
Wilson*, Thomas James 107, 108-9, 115, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 136, 144, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160
LETTERS from 108-9, 128 n. Witemeyer, Hugh 173
World War I 102
World War II xviii, 19, 81
Wu Yung 119
xiao (hsiao) ? (filial piety) 51, 134
Xiao jing (Book on Filial Piety) 52
xin (hsin) ? ('make it new') 104, 148, 149,
188
Xu* Shen (Hsu ? Shen): Shuowen jiezi 57, 61, 76,
79, 95, 145, 172
Yale University 126, 139, 158, 194 Yang Chu, see Yang Zhu
Yang Fengchi (Yang Fengqi) 18
and EP xiv, 18-9
as EP's guide xvi 19, 29, 37, 39
as EP's opponent xvi, xviii, 19, 26-7, 29-30,
34-5
LETTERS from 26-7, 29-30, 31-2, 34-5, 36,
37, 39
LETTERS to 23-5, 27-8, 30-1, 32-4, 35, 36,
37-9
Yang Zhu (Yang Chu) 2
Yao (Tang* Yao) xiii, 135, 136
Yeats, William Butler 60, 186
yi(i) ? (righteousness) 66, 67, 80, 82,
83, 84
Yi jing (I Ching)(Book of Changes) 48, 50, 52, 66,
103, 192
EP's study of xvii, 53, 54
Yongzheng (Iong Ching)(Chinese emperor) xiii, 46, 172, 173, 183, 184
Zeng Xi (Tseng Hsi; Thseng-sie) 9, 10, 38, 39 Zhang Junmai, see Chang, Carsun
zheng ming ? ? (precise naming) 23
zhi (chih) ? ('the hitching post') xxi, 42, 52, 97,
208
zhi (chih) ?
Del Mar, Alexander (1836-1926). American historian. He headed the US Bureau of Statistics from 1866 to 1869. Parts of his A History of Monetary Crimes (1899) and other works appeared in the Square Dollar series.
Du Fu (712-70). Tang poet. He and Li Bo (701-62) are often considered the two greatest poets in China's literary history. The Du Fu/Li Bo relation is treated in Sam Hamill's Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry (1993). For Du Fu's work in translation, see Burton Watson's Selected Poems of Du Fu (2002).
Fenollosa, Ernest (1853-1908). American orientalist. After a twelve-year sojourn in Japan he became the curator of oriental art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1890-7). His Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art was published posthumously in London in 1912. In 1913 his widow Mary Fenollosa entrusted to EP his notes and manuscripts, which yielded Cathay (1915), ''Noh'' or Accomplishment (1917), and ''The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry'' (1919).
Frobenius, Leo (1873-1938). German anthropologist and archeologist. He led twelve expeditions to Africa between 1904 and 1935. His works include Unter den unstra ? flichen Athiopen (1913) and Erlebte Erdteile (Parts of the Earth Experienced), 7 vols. (1925-9). He and EP met in 1927. He is listed in Cantos 38, 74, 87, and 89.
Guan Zhong ? ? or Guanzi ? ? (c. 725-645 bc). Ancient Chinese statesman and economist. He served as prime minister to Duke Huan of Qi. His teachings are recorded in the work Guanzi. For its first thirty-three essays in translation, see Allyn Rickett's Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China; A Study and Trans- lation (2001).
Hawley, Willis Meeker (1896-1987). Hollywood book-seller and sinologist. He sup- plied the Stone-Classics texts of The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot (1951). He also
glossary 2 3 1 provided EP characters for Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). The EP/Hawley relation
is treated in Mary Paterson Cheadle's Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations (1997).
Horton, T. David (b. 1927). American poet and publisher. A graduate from the Catholic University of America, he was a regular visitor to EP at St Elizabeths. At EP's instigation he and John Kasper co-founded the Square Dollar series of inexpensive paperbacks.
Hu Shi ? ? (1891-1962). Chinese poet and scholar. Educated at Cornell and Columbia, he championed the modern Chinese literary language based on vernacular. His works include Outline of Chinese Philosophy (1919) and Chinese Renaissance (1934). He was ambassador to the US from 1938 to 1942.
Karlgren, Bernhard (1889-1978). Swedish sinologist. His works include Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese (1923), Glosses on the Book of Odes (1946, 1964), and Grammata Serica (1957) of which EP owned copies of the first two.
Kasper, John (b. 1929). American publisher. A graduate from Columbia he began visiting and corresponding with EP in 1950. At EP's instigation he and David Horton brought out the Square Dollar series. He later became a Nazi sympathizer and a segregationist.
Kimball, Dudley. American printer. He founded the Blue Ridge Mountain Press in Boonton, New Jersey. From 1949 to 1951 he worked on EP's Confucian Odes manuscript with an English translation, a Chinese sound key, and a seal text.
King Wen ? ? (11th century bc). Father to China's third dynasty Zhou. After capture and imprisonment, he continued to fight the Shang, a dynasty eventually overthrown in the hands of his son King Wu. As one of Confucius' ideal model rulers, he is listed in Canto 53.
Kwock, C. H. ? ? ? (b. 1920). Honolulu-born journalist. As editor of Chinese World (San Francisco) he requested a message from EP to be printed on Confucius' birthday. The message released in Chinese World 23 September 1954 was ''Kung is to China as water to fishes. '' In 1980 he co-founded with painter Walter Leong and poet Gary Gach the Li Po Society of America. He is co-translator with Vincent McHugh of Old Friend from Far Away (1980) and translator of Tiger Rider and Other Chinese Epigrams (1986).
Laozi ? ? (6th century bc). Ancient Chinese philosopher. The Taoist classic Daode jing is attributed to him. He is listed in Canto 54. See Stephen Mitchell's Tao Te Ching (1988).
Laughlin, James (1914-99). American poet and publisher. In 1936, at EP's instigation, he founded the publishing company New Directions. For six decades he was EP's chief American publisher. The EP/Laughlin relation is chronicled in David Gordon's Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters (1994).
Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1884-1957). English painter and writer. He and EP first met in London in 1909. Together they launched the Vorticist movement in 1914. Lewis is listed in Canto 80/526. The EP/Lewis relation is detailed in Timothy Materer's Pound/Lewis: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis (1985).
Li Bo (Bai) ? ? (701-62). Tang poet. He is often considered one of the two greatest Chinese poets along with Du Fu (712-70). Eleven of his poems are presented in EP's Cathay (1915). For his work in translation, see David Hinton's Selected Poems of Li Po (1998). For a discussion of Li Bo and Du Fu, see Sam Hamill's Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry (1993).
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MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982). American poet and dramatist. He first met EP in Paris about 1923. In 1944-5, he was US assistant secretary of state, and in 1949 he became a Harvard professor. He lobbied for EP's release from St Elizabeths Hospital.
McNaughton, William (b. 1933). American scholar. In 1953 he transferred from the University of Missouri to Georgetown to be close to EP with whom he studied Confucianism and edited Strike (1955-6). After taking a Ph. D. at Yale (1965), he helped found Chinese programs at Oberlin, Denison, and Wabash, and the program in trans- lation and interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong, where he taught from 1986 to 1998.
Mencius ? ? (c. 372-289bc). The greatest Confucian thinker after Confucius himself. His teachings are preserved in Mencius, the last of the Confucian Four Books. EP discusses Mencius in ''Mang Tsze'' (SP, 81-97). His abridged translation of Mencius 2, ''Mencius, or the Economist,'' appeared in New Iconograph (New York) in 1947.
Mori Kainan (1863-1911). Japanese scholar of Chinese literature. He gave Ernest Fenollosa private lessons of Chinese poetry in 1899-1901. EP calls his Cathay ''Transla- tions . . . from the notes of the late Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga'' (Personae, 130).
Qu Yuan ? ? (c. 340-c. 278 bc). Ancient Chinese poet. As minister to King Huai of Chu he was banished to the far south. His works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, and Nine Pieces. EP's ''After Ch'u Yuan'' (1914) is a variant on no. 9 of Nine Songs. For Qu Yuan's career and poetry in translation, see David Hawkes' The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (1985).
Rock, Joseph F. (1884-1962). American botanist and anthropologist. He lived with the Naxi people in southwest China for twenty-seven years. His works, ''The Romance of 2K'a-2ma ? -1gyu-3mi-2gkyi'' (1939) and ''The 2Muan 1Bpo ? Ceremony'' (1948), play a role in EP's late cantos. The EP/Rock relation is treated in Emily Mitchell Wallace's '' 'Why Not Spirits? '--'The Universe Is Alive': Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus'' (Ezra Pound and China, ed. Zhaoming Qian, 2003).
Santayana, George (1863-1952). Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and Harvard professor. After retirement in 1912 he moved to Italy. He and EP met in Rome and Venice in 1939. He is listed in Cantos 80, 81, 95, and 100.
Scheiwiller, Vanni (1934-99). EP's Italian publisher. His father Giovanni Scheiwiller (1889-1965) issued EP's Confucius: Digest of the Analects (1937). He published the first Italian editions of Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959).
Shun ? (c. 23rd century bc). Legendary Chinese ruler after Yao and one of Confucius' ideal model kings. He is alluded to in Cantos 53, 56, 58, 74, and 106.
Sima Qian ? ? ? (c. 145-86 bc). Grand Historiographer under the Emperor Wu of Han (EP's Liu Ch'e; r. 140-87 bc). His Historical Records chronicles the Chinese history from ancient times to his own day. For Sima Qian's Chinese history in translation, see Raymond Dawson's Historical Records (1994).
Spann, Marcella (Booth) (b. 1933). American scholar. She traveled with EP and DP from Washington to Italy in 1958. In Italy she and EP co-edited Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry (1965).
glossary 2 3 3
Stock, Noel (b. 1929). Australian journalist, poet, and university teacher in the US (University of Toledo). He founded the Poundian magazine Edge (Melbourne, 1956-8) and authored The Life of Ezra Pound (1970).
Sun, Veronica Huilan ? ? ? (b. 1927). Immigrating from China, Sun worked on an MA in English at the Catholic University of America from the fall of 1950 until the fall of 1952. In 1955 she joined the Ford Foundation in New York. Her letters to EP (1953-7, Beinecke) document when she visited St Elizabeths Hospital, left for New York, and got married.
Swabey, Reverend Henry (1916-96). Anglican vicar in England and Canada.
He corresponded with EP at intervals from 1935. His translation of Thaddeus Zielinski's ''The Sibyl'' appeared in Edge, 2 (1956).
Tao Qian ? ? or Tao Yuanming ? ? ? (365-427). Chinese poet. EP presents his poem ''The Hovering Cloud'' in Cathay and alludes to his prose piece ''The Peach Blossom Fountain'' in Canto 84/558: ''T'ao Ch'ien heard the old Dynasty's music j as it might be at the Peach-blossom Fountain. '' For Tao Qian's career and work in transla- tion, see A. R. David's Tao Yuan-Ming, AD 365-427 (1983).
Tucci, Giuseppe (1894-1984). Italian orientalist. In 1933 he helped found the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO). He was the author of Indo-Tibetica I (1932) and other books.
Wang Shouren ? ? ? or Wang Yangming ? ? ? (1472-1529). The most important neo-Confucian philosopher after Zhu Xi (1130-1200). For a discussion of his neo-Confucianism, see Tu Wei-ming's Neo Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1976).
Wang Wei ? ? (699-759). Tang government official, poet, painter, and musician. EP's ''Epigraph to 'Four poems of Departure' '' in Cathay (1915) is a variant on a short lyric by him. For Wang Wei's career and work in translation, see Pauline Yu's The Poetry of Wang Wei (1980). For the EP/Wang Wei relation, see Zhaoming Qian's Orientalism and Modernism (1995).
Wilson, Thomas James (1902-69). American publisher. Educated at University of North Carolina and Oxford, he served as the director of Harvard University Press from 1947 to 1967.
Xu Shen ? ? (c. 58-147). Ancient Chinese lexicographer. His Shuowen Jiezi Dictionary (Explication of Graphs and Analysis of Characters, ad 100-21) lists 9,353 characters under 540 radicals. It started the tradition of etymological analysis.
Yao ? (c. 23rd century bc). Legendary Chinese ruler and one of Confucius' ideal model kings. He is honored in Cantos 53, 56, 58, 74, and 106.
Zhu Xi ? ? (1130-1200). Song neo-Confucian philosopher. He prepared the Confucian Four Books. His Outline and Details of the Comprehensive Mirror yielded De Mailla's Histoire g ? ene ? rale de la Chine, the main source of Cantos 52-61. He is listed in Cantos 80 and 99.
Zhuangzi ? ? (c. 369-286 bc). Ancient Chinese philosopher. His teachings are preserved in Zhuangzi. EP's ''Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic'' (1916) is a variant on Li Bo's recreation of Zhuangzi, 2. 13. For Zhuangzi in translation, see Burton Watson's Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (1996).
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INDEX
Items appearing as illustrations and notes are indexed in bold: e. g. 86 i, 168 n. An asterisk following a surname indicates an entry in the Glossary.
Abyssinia 30, 31
Adams*, Brooks 52, 119, 191 Adams, John (US president) 56, 155 Aeschylus 120
Agassiz*, Louis 52, 77, 87, 119, 129 Agenda (London) 161 anti-Semitism 18, 173, 181, 195 Ariga* Nagao xix, 17
Aristotle 78, 84, 218
Atatu ? rk, Mustafa Kemal 177
Atti, Isotta degli 129
Auden, W. H. 192
Avicenna, see Ibn S ? ? na ?
Babbitt, Irving 81 Baller, F. W. 81
Sacred Edict (Kangxi) 46, 172-3, 183-4, 191 Banca St Giorgio 30, 31
Baudelaire, Charles 52
BBC 142, 159
Beijing (Peking) University xxi, 1, 41, 96 Belden, Jack: China Shakes the World 51, 52, 55,
59, 60
Benton*, Thomas Hart 144
Blackstone*, William 85, 119
Blake, William 186
Bo (Bai)* Juyi (Po Chu-yi) 186, 192
Boccaccio, Giovanni 52
Book of Changes, see Yi jing
Book of History, see Shu jing
Book of Odes, see Shi jing
Book of Rites, see Li ji
Book on Filial Piety, see Xiao jing
Brancusi, Constantin 142
Bridson, D. G. 159
Brooks, Cleanth 136
Brooks, Van Wyck: America's Coming-of-Age 80 Browning, Robert 168
''Sordello'' 52
Buddhism ('Foe') xviii, 53, 75 Bunting, Basil 59
Bynner*, Witter 167 Byzantium 177, 188
Cafe ? Dante 129
Cairns*, Huntington 126, 128, 129, 130
Calvin, John 116
Cambridge University 134
Carter, Thomas 167
Catholic University of America (Washington,
DC) 192, 196-8 Catullus 186
Cavalcanti, Guido 78, 140
Cecil (Gascoyne-Cecil), Edgar Algernon
Robert 33, 34, 35
Ce ? line, Louis-Ferdinand 65
Chang, Carsun (Zhang Junmai) xxi, 96-7, 105,
148, 166, 171, 198
and Canto 86: 105
and Canto 89: 106
and EP xiv, 96-7, 105-6
The Development of Neo-Confucian
Thought 102, 103, 105, 166 LETTERS from 102-3
on EP's Confucian translations 106
Chao, Tse-chiang (Zhao Ziqiang) 103, 151, 152, 161-2, 180
and EP xiv, xv, 161-2, 165
and David Wang 167, 172, 178, 192
Du Fu translations 161, 165, 167, 168, 171 LETTERS from 165-71
on Guan Zhong 162, 167-8, 169, 170, 192
Chatel, John 193
Chaucer, Geoffrey 186, 192
Chavannes, Edouard 48
Chen,W. C. 7,8
cheng ? (sincerity) 97, 128
Cheng Yichuan (Ch'eng I-ch'uan) 49, 51 Cheou-sin or Shou-sin, see Zhou, King Chiang*Kai-shek 18,23,24,25,26,27,29,30,31,
33, 56, 59, 96, 180, 192
Ch'ien-lung, see Qianlong
chih, see zhi
China Inland Mission (publishers) 81 China's War of Resistance against Japan
(1937-45) xvi, 18, 19, 26, 27, 34, 35
China Year Book (1939) 32
Chinese characters ('ideograms') xiii, 9, 19, 29,
39, 41, 52, 88
EP's early conception of 17, 37-8
EP's revised conception of xx-i, 42, 54, 58,
59, 62, 74, 77, 89, 94-5, 207-28
236
index
Chinese characters (cont. )
EP's use of xx, 23, 24, 25, 33, 75, 94 etymology of 57, 61, 78-9
phonetics of 48, 70, 75, 77, 157
radical systems of 42, 51, 60, 61, 68, 75, 76,
77, 79
romanization of 63, 70, 156
Chinese poetry xiii, 1, 9-10, 15, 95, 136, 165, 168 Chinese World (San Francisco) 103, 179, 180 Chlodwig Hohenlohe, see Viktor, Chlodwig Karl Christianity 3, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 74, 83, 117,
120, 126, 127, 133, 138 Chu Hsi, see Zhu Xi
Ch'u Yuan, see Qu Yuan
Chuang Chou, see Zhuang Zhou or Zhuangzi Chuci (Ch'u-tz'u) ('Southern Anthology') xvii,
Dalai Lama 116-7
Daniel, Arnaut 221
Dante Alighieri 52, 87, 89, 94, 129, 137, 186, 208 Dartmouth College 172, 173, 175
Davenport, Guy 161
de Chambrun, Mme. 56
De Feo, Luciano 28, 29, 30
de Mailla*, Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac:
Histoire ge ? ne ? rale de la Chine 48, 90, 198
de Rachewiltz*, Boris 71, 147, 153, 204 de Rachewilts*, Igor 51, 64, 65, 84, 153 de Rachewiltz, Mary 9, 64, 90, 155, 204 Del Mar*, Alexander 119
Devaney, James 133
Dewey, John 190
Dewey, Thomas 59
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot 178 Douglas, Gavin 58
Dream of the Red Chamber 186
Du* Fu (Tu Fu) 151, 161, 165, 167, 168, 171, 186,
189, 192 Dudek, Louis 195
Duffy, Chase 139, 140, 148, 159 Duke University 184, 185 Dulles, John Foster 193
Eberhart, Richard 192
Eden, Anthony (British prime minister) 192 Edge (Melbourne) 161, 172, 187, 189, 190, 191, 195 Egoist (London) xv, 2-3, 7
Eisenhower, Milton 108
Eisenstein, Sergei 132
Eliot, Thomas Stearns ('Possum') xiii, 52, 61,
89, 135, 178, 179
and EP's Odes project 116, 127, 128, 131, 133-4
Elisseeff, Serge 81
Elliott, William Yandell 87 Ellmann, Richard 55
Emery, Clark 130, 167
Erigena, John Scotus 59, 61, 62 Espey, John 167
eugenics 173, 178, 181, 191
Faber and Faber (publishers) 116, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, 140
Fang, Achilles (Fang Zhitong) 40-1, 90, 161, 167 and EP xiv, 40-2, 107-9, 180
Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms 66, 67,
71, 72-3
'errata' for Canto 85: 153-5
Introduction to Classic Anthology xvi, 108,
144, 146, 150
LETTERS from 45, 47-50, 52-3, 55, 57-8, 60-
2, 63 n. , 63, 65-6, 69-70, 71-2, 73-4, 75-6,
73, 74, 79
Chung Yung, see Zhong yong
Chunqiu (Ch'un-chiu) (Spring and Autumn)
19, 34,
47, 66
Cihai dictionary 61, 74
Cixi (Tse` Hsi) (Chinese empress dowager) 189 Columbia University 125, 136, 161
Commercial Press Chinese-English Dictionary xiv,
225
Confucianism 26, 27, 28, 59, 83, 84, 176, 186
and legalism 162
and sinology 64, 119
and Taoism xviii, 122
anti-Confucianism xvi, 2, 102
EP as Confucian xiii, 1, 2-3, 52, 55, 127, 128 see also neo-Confucianism
Confucius (Kong* Qiu; K'ung Fu-tzu) 103, 119, 120, 124, 129, 142, 145, 157, 158, 197
on Guan Zhong 168
on materialism 2-3 Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim 178 Contini, Ennio 118, 119 Cookson, William 195 Copernicus 127, 154 Copland, Aaron 126
Corsica 30, 31
Couvreur, Se ? raphin 154, 158
Chou King xv, 50, 96, 135, 153 Li Ki 46, 47, 90
Tso Tchouan 47
Cummings*, Edward Estlin ('Kumrad') 123, 124, 129, 130, 131
Eimi 55
on EP 132
Cushing, Caleb 141, 143, 144
Da xue (Great Learning) xvii, 24, 25, 213
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Great Digest; Ta
Hio; Ta S'eu
78-9, 81-3, 86, 115, 116-7 n. , 117-8, 121-2, 122-3, 125, 126-7, 128-9, 130-1, 132 n. , 132-3, 135-6, 138, 139, 140-1, 143-4, 145-6, 147 n. , 148-9, 150, 151-2, 153-5, 158-9, 160
LETTERS to 45-7, 50-1, 53-4, 55-6, 58-60, 62-3, 63-5, 66-9, 70-1, 72-3, 74-5, 76-8, 79- 81, 84-5, 87, 115-7, 118-21, 122, 123-5, 125-6, 127-8, 129-30, 131-2, 133-5, 136-8, 138-9, 140, 141-3, 144-5, 146-8, 149-50, 151, 152-3, 156-8, 160
''A Note on the Stone-Classics'' xv, 41, 45, 69
on Chinese dictionaries 48, 49, 57, 61, 65-6, 81, 151
on four tuan 65-6, 81-2, 83, 86
on Shu jing 47, 70
Fang, Ilse 52, 151, 160
Fang, Josephine Marie Riss 197 Fang, P. H. (Fang Baoxian) 197
and EP xiv, 196-9
LETTERS from 203, 204, 205 LETTERS to 203, 204
on EP's use of Lijiang/Naxi 204, 205
Farrar, Robert 150
fascism xvi, xviii, 18, 56, 173 Fenollosa*, Ernest Francisco 50, 87,
148, 197
The Chinese Written Character xix-xx, 42, 106,
148, 197
East and West 48
manuscripts and notes xiii, 1, 50, 88, 90, 95,
177, 207
on the Chinese character xix, 42, 106
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil xiii, 1
First Emperor of Ch'in, see Qin Shihuang Five Classics 66
see also Chunqiu, Li ji, Shi jing, Shu jing, and Yi jing.
Ford Foundation 118
Four Books xiii, xvii, 1, 2, 9, 18, 19, 25, 47, 56,
64, 66, 70, 89
EP on xviii, 42, 53, 56, 62, 64, 119, 122, 123,
124, 129
see also Da xue, Zhong yong, Lun yu, and
Mencius.
four tuan ? ? 42, 64, 65-6, 66-7 as theme in Cantos xviii, 42
Funk, Walter 30, 31
'Gemisto,' see Plethon, George Gemistus Gesell, Silvio 56
Giles, Herbert A. : A History of Chinese
Literature 1, 53, 60, 73
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 47
Giovanninni, Giovanni 196-8, 203
Gordon, David 161, 172
Goullart, Peter: Forgotten Kingdom 196-7, 195,
199, 204
Graves, Robert Ranke 190
Gu Yewang (Ku Yeh-wang): Yupian (Yu ? -pien) 57,
79
Guan* Zhong (Kuan Chung) xvi, 162, 168, 169,
170, 192
Guangxu (Chinese emperor) 189 Guanyin (Kuanon) 124
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 121
Hare, William Loftus: ''Chinese Egoism'' 2 Harvard Summer Institute 87
Harvard University 41, 55, 59, 62, 71, 129, 152, 155 Harvard University Press 89, 107-9, 115, 126, 133,
150, 159, 160
Harvard-Yenching Institute 40, 64, 66, 158 Hawkes, John 115, 116, 123, 127, 129, 130, 131, 139,
140, 143, 155
Hawley*, Willis Meeker 40, 46, 51, 62, 75, 107,
157, 170, 172, 180 LETTERS from 40, 157 n.
Herodotus 48
Hightower, James Robert 73 Hitler, Adolf 30, 31, 173, 191 Hokusai Katsushika 142
Homer 186
Horton*, T. David 48, 107, 173, 191 hsiao, see xiao
hsin, see xin
Hsu ? Shen, see Xu Shen
Hu* Shi (Shih) 102, 117
Hudson Review (New York) 49, 151,
155
Hughes, E. R. 74
Hughes, Glenn 10
Hull, Cordell 56
Hummel, Arthur William 46, 49
Humphries, Rolf 191
Hung, William: Tu Fu, China's Greatest Poet 152
i, see yi
I Ching, see Yi jing
Ibn S ? ? na ? (Avicenna) 59, 61
EP/A. Fang debate about
86
80, 81-2, 83, 84, 85,
see also ren, yi, li, zhi French, Gloria 72, 77, 80, 95 Frobenius*, Leo 154, 207, 212
widow of 204 Frost, Robert 190, 192
index 237 Fulbright Fellowships ('fullBlights') 87
238
index
Ibsen, Henrik 191
Ideograms, see Chinese characters
Imagism xiii, 125, 186
Iong Ching, see Yongzheng
Isotta, see Atti, Isotta degli
Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East
(IsMEO) 18, 71
James, Henry 3, 186
'Jas,' see Laughlin, James
Jastrow, Morris 134
Jeans, Roger 96
Jefferson, Thomas (US president) 105, 121, 155 jen, see ren
Jie, King 2
jing ? (respect) 42, 49, 51, 52, 64, 65, 75, 76, 94 Jones, Tom 185
Joyce, James 178, 179, 191
Jung, Angela Chih-ying (Rong Zhiying;
Palandri) 11, 80, 85, 88, 90
and EP xiv, 88-90
''Ezra Pound and China'' 88 ''Homage to a Confucian Poet'' 89 LETTERS to 93-5
Juvenal 49
Kang and Liang Reform (1898) 189
Kangxi (K'ang Hsi) (Chinese emperor): ''Sacred
Edict'' xiii, 46
Kangxi (K'ang-hsi) Dictionary 42, 57, 79, 189 Karlgren*, Bernhard: Analytical Dictionary 49,
51, 67, 158
Glosses on the Book of Odes 71, 207-8, 224, 227
Kasper*, John 107-8, 125-6, 128, 173, 181, 191 Kemal, see Atatu ? rk, Mustafa Kemal Kennedy, George xix, 167
Kenner, Hugh xix, 11, 67, 138, 145
Kerr, Gordon 194
K'ienlung, see Qianlong
Kimball*,Dudley 68,69,70,72,107,116,127,129 Kissinger, Henry 87
Kitasono, Katue 18
LETTERfrom 152n.
Ku Yeh-wang, see Gu Yewang
Kuan Chung, see Guan Zhong
Kuanon, see Guanyin
'Kumrad,' see Cummings, Edward Estlin K'ung or K'ung Fu-tzu, see Confucius Kunze, Reiner 151
Kwock*, C. H. xiv, 97, 103, 167
LETTERS from 104
La Drie`re, Craig 115, 203 Lady, Lee 190
Lampman, Rex Herbert 187
Laozi (Lao-tzu; orig. Li* Er) xviii, 75, 120, 121, 122 Lash, Kenneth 122, 127
Laughlin*, James ('Jas') 40-1, 68, 71, 107, 128, 171
LETTERS from 41, 45 n.
League of Nations 30, 31, 33, 34, 87
Leahy, William Daniel 56
Leary, Lewis 128, 130
Lebeck, Anne 187, 189, 191
Legge, James: as translator 37, 38, 53, 80, 106,
143, 198
bilingual Chinese Classics 47-8, 50, 59, 70,
95, 96, 104
bilingual Four Books 18-9, 46, 52, 59, 67, 81,
89, 95, 137, 148
Leibniz, Gottfried W. 59, 62
Leiden Mission 34, 35
Lewis*, Percy Wyndham 117, 134, 178, 179, 184
Rotting Hill 117
The Writer and the Absolute 117 The Revenge for Love 124
li ? (propriety) 66, 80, 85
Li* Bo (Bai) (Li Po) 3, 88, 120, 152, 161, 186, 189,
192, 197
Li ji (Li Ki)(Book of Rites) 28, 47, 66 Lijiang (Lichiang) 196-99, 204
ling ? ('sensibility') 96, 97
Lingnan University 161
Li Si (Li Ssu) 76
Listener (London) 176
Little Review (New York) 3
Liu, James xix
Liu Xiang (Liu Hsiang) 74
Liu Xie: Wenxin diaolong (Wen-hsin
tiao-lung) 121 London Times 176 Lowell, Amy 117
Lu Ji (Lu Ch'i; Lu Ki): Wen Fu 74, 121, 136 Luce, Henry 59
Luchini, Alberto 37, 38
Lun yu (Analects) xvii, 23, 24-5, 57, 64, 66, 84
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Analects Lyden, Nora Devereaux 191
MacLeish*, Archibald 48, 74, 108, 123, 144, 145 Macmillan (publishers) 107
McNaughton*, William xix, 96-7, 103, 105, 161,
165, 167
'Make it new,' see xin
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain 178 Mao Zedong 96
Maritain, Jacques 87
Martell, Charles 195
Martinelli, Sheri 165, 193, 195
Masters, Edgar Lee 191
Mastrangelo, Aida Juliett 175, 176
Mathews, R. H. : Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary xiv,42,54,55,58,61,65-6,67,73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 118, 122, 137, 138, 150, 152, 158, 172, 176, 187
Matthiessen, Francis Otto 87, 120 Maverick, Lewis xv-vi, 162, 170, 194 Mei Dingzuo (Mei Ting-tso): Zihui
dictionary 79
Mencius (Meng* Ke) 38, 47, 67, 86, 129, 172, 176 Mencius xviii, 19, 25, 28, 33, 38, 42, 62, 65, 66, 80,
84, 124, 136, 161
Mengozzi, Narciso 155
Meridiano di Roma 35, 36
Meyer, Eugene Isaac ('Meyerblatt') 182 Milton, John 168, 178, 182
modernism xiii, 3
Monroe, Harriet 118
Monumenta Serica (Beijing) 41, 74 Moore, Merril 150
Morgan, Frederick 148
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. 136 Morgenthau, Henry, Sr. 136
Mori* Kainan xvii, 17, 88
Morrison, Robert: Dictionary of the
Chinese Language xiv, xvii, 9, 37, 38, 213 Mullins, Eustace 168
Muratori, L. A. 155
Mussolini, Benito 56, 68, 154, 173
Na-khi, see Naxi
Nanjing (Nanking) Treaty (1842) 143 Nation (New York) 195
Naxi (Na-khi) xv, 196-9
rites of xix, 198
script of 197, 198-9
neo-Confucianism 65, 96-7, 102, 103, 105-6 New Directions (publishers) 40, 69, 107,
161, 173
New Mexico Quarterly 118, 127, 128 New Orleans Poetry Journal 175 New Statesman (London) 176 New Yorker 86
New York Times 120
New York Times Book Review 126 New York University 161
Nine (London) 161
Noh drama xiii, 1, 207
Noigandres (Sao Paulo) 140 Norman, Charles 126, 132 Norton, Charles Eliot 156
Ocellus 59
Odes, see Shi jing
O'Grady, Desmond 195 Ohio Wesleyan University 1
One Hundred and Eight Bandits (Water Margin) 186
'1000 family,' see Tang Song qian jia shi opium traffic 32, 34, 35
Opium War (1839-42) 143
Orage, Alfred Richard 137
orientalism 3
Ouang-iu-p'uh, see Wang Youpu Overholser, Winfred 45, 46, 140 Ovid 186
Owen, Peter 130, 135
Paige, Douglas Duncan 48, 185, 189
Paine, Thomas 84
Palandri, Angela Jung, see Jung, Angela Chih-
ying
Pauthier, Guillaume: Les quatre livres xiii, 1,
2, 3
Pearce, Donald 176
Pearson, Norman Holmes 161, 166, 167, 194 Pe ? tain, Philip 56
Plethon, George Gemistus ('Gemisto') 183 Po Chu-yi, see Bo (Bai) Juyi
Poems by a Thousand Tang and Song Poets, see Tang Song qian jia shi
Poetry (Chicago) 119, 189
Poetry Taos (Taos, NM) 191
Ponsot, Marie 187, 191
'Possom,' see Eliot, Thomas Stearn
Pound, Dorothy Shakespear 2, 8, 9, 15, 41, 53,
89, 104, 105, 148, 152, 156, 166, 167, 168, 169,
170, 171, 189, 193
postscripts by 69, 72, 134, 141, 149 LETTERS from 41, 197
Pound, Ezra Loomis
WORKS, EDITIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS:
ABC of Reading 177 ''After Ch'u Yuan'' 73
Cantos 40, 55, 88, 187, 188
Canto 4: 3, 73
Canto 13: xiii, xix, 3, 9-10, 49
Canto 49: ('Seven Lakes Canto') xv, 9,
10-11, 15-7 Canto 51: 23 Canto 53: 48, 50-1 Canto 54: 76, 78 Canto 61: 184 Canto 74: 57 Canto 77: 19, 24-5 Canto 78: 19, 33 Canto 85: 42, 153-5 Canto 86: 97, 105
index 239
240
index
Canto 87: 42
Canto 89: 97, 106
Canto 93: 42
Canto 96: 172
Canto 98: 198
Canto 99: xx, 42
Canto 101: xv, 197
Canto 104: xv
Canto 106: 162
Canto 110: xv, 89
Canto 112: xv, 197
Canto 113: xv
Cantos 52-71: xiii
Cantos 52-61 (Chinese History Cantos): 40,
88, 90, 129
Cantos 74-84 (Pisan Cantos): 19, 41, 128 Cantos 85-95 (Rock-Drill): xxi, 41, 96, 97 Cantos 85-6: xv, xvii
Cantos 96-109 (Thrones): xxi, 162 Cantos 98-99: xiii
Cantos 110-7 (Drafts and Fragments): xv Cathay xiii, 1, 3, 17, 73, 88
''China and 'Voice of America''' 161
Confucian Translations
Analects xvi,xvii,40,49,52,57,64,88,95,104, 106, 145, 149, 162, 169, 197
Chiung Iung xvii
ClassicAnthology xiii,xvi,40,108,135,148,150 The Great Digest & The Unwobbling Pivot
xvi, 40, 41, 63, 69, 86, 88, 107,
118, 131
Ta Hio xvi, 9, 88
Ta S'eu xvii, 19, 38, 59, 64, 71
''Donna mi prega'' (Cavalcanti) 78, 116 ''The First Year of 'Pagany''' 136
Guide to Kulchur 117
''I Bramini e l'usura'' 35 IfThisBeTreason. . . 65
''Imaginary Letter VII'' 3
''An Immorality'' 126
Introductory note to ''The Causes and
Remedy of the Poverty of China'' 2 Literary Essays 3
''Mang Tsze'' 26 n. , 189
Manuscripts
''Preliminary Survey'' xxi, 52, 207-28 three-way scholar's edition of Classic
Anthology xvii, 68, 89-90, 107-8, 115, 116, 123, 127, 132, 141, 144-5, 146, 151, 156, 157, 158-9, 160, 197
untitled Chinese poem 75, 76, 77, 89, 93-4
'Noh' or Accomplishment 1 ''Papyrus'' 133
''Patria Mia'' 118 Personae 187
''The Seafarer'' 94
''Song of the Bowmen of Shu'' 73 Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti 140 Sophokles: Women of Trachis
(TRAXINIAI) 142, 147
A Visiting Card 115
''The Words of Ming Mao'' xvi, 2
Pound, Homer Loomis 1, 8 LETTERS to 15-17
Pound, Isabel Weston: LETTER to 15 Pound Newsletter (Berkeley) 139, 140 Pound, Omar Shakespear 108, 159 Pound's screen book 9, 10, 12 i, 15, 17 Presley, Elvis 190, 192
Princeton University 115, 117, 136 Propertius, Sextus 186
Psellus, Michael Constantine 188
Qian, Zhaoming: Modernist Response to Chinese Art xx, 10
Qianlong (K'ienlung; Ch'ien-lung) (Chinese emperor) 45, 69
Qin Shihuang (First Emperor of Ch'in) 162, 178
Qinghua University 18, 40
Qu* Yuan (Ch'u Yuan) 61, 73, 79
Randall, John H. 125
Ransom, John Crowe 191
Rattray, David 173, 195
Reck, Michael 152
Reid, Ralph 182, 185
ren (jen) ? (humanity) 42, 53, 66, 80, 81, 86,
120, 166
Republic of China 1, 19, 25, 96, 199, 204 Rexroth, Kenneth 192
Riccardi, Raffaello 30, 31
Ritchie, Eleanor 194
Rivera, Francisco 179, 180
Rock*, Joseph F. xv, 180, 196-99,
203, 204 LETTER from 196
Rodman, Sheldon 191
Romney, Barbara 189, 191
Roosevelt, Theodore (US president) 56 Rudge, Olga 90
Russell, Bertrand 62
Russell, Peter 48, 130, 161
Russian Revolution (1917) 23, 24 Rustichello da Pisa 156
''Sacred Edict'' 45, 46, 172, 182, 184, 191 see also Baller, F. W. ; Kangxi
Sagetrieb 134, 154
Said, Edward 3
St Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, DC) 40-1,
46, 88, 90, 96-7, 105, 108-9, 161-2, 165, 172,
197-8
St Victor, Richard 106
Sanburg, Carl 190, 192
Santayana*, George 59, 62, 75, 80, 156 Scarfoglio, Carlo 147, 211
Schwartz, Delmore 192
Scheiwiller*, Vanni 90, 145, 149, 195 Scott, Tom xiii
Scott, Walter 156
segregation 173, 192
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher 118 Shakespeare, William 178, 186 shangzhi ? ? (self-cultivation) 25 Shapiro, Karl 191
Sharp, Bob 181, 190, 192-3
Sharrock, Roger 176
Shaw, George Bernard 176, 191
Shi jing (Shih)(Book of Odes) 46, 52,
53, 66, 115, 122, 137, 142, 208, 224
EP on 130
EP's study of 18, 70, 177
EP's three-way manuscript of 42, 62, 65, 68,
69, 70, 72, 89-90, 107-9, 115, 120, 123, 126,
130, 133, 135, 151, 152, 157, 160
EP's translation of 95, 107-9, 123, 131, 139, 141,
Stanford University 103
Stilwell, Joseph W. : The Stilwell Papers 46, 51, 56 Stevenson, Adlai 192
Stock*, Noel 161, 167, 172, 183, 190, 191, 195 Strike (Washington, DC) 161
Sullivan, Tom 191
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays 120
Sun*, Veronica Huilan (Sun Huilan) xiv, xx,
120, 148, 149 Sun Yat-sen 19, 26
Sun Yat-sen Revolution (1911) 1, 199, 204 Sun Yat-sen University 161
Sung, Far-san T. (Song Faxiang) xxi, 1
and EP xiv, xvi, 1-3
''The Causes and Remedy of the Poeverty of
China'' 2-3, 7, 8
China proposal for EP 1-2, 6, 7, 8 LETTERS from 6-8
Sung, Mildred Y. 7
Sung, T. V. 56
Sung, Z. D. : The Symbols of Yi King 51, 210, 240 Swabey*, Henry 56
Tanaka Giichi ( Japanese prime minister) 32-3 Tang Song qian jia shi (Poems by a Thousand Tang
and Song Poets; '1000 family') xvii, 54, 55 Tang Stone-Classics 40, 43 i, 46, 68, 122
Tao* Qian (T'ao Yu ? an-ming) 61, 192
T'ao Yu ? an-ming, see Tao Qian
Taoism xviii, 53, 121-2
Tate, Allen 192
Taylor, Richard 11
Tchu, Sig. (Zhu Ying) 27, 28, 29, 35, 39, 71 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 77
Terrel, Carroll F. xv, 196
Thackeray, William Makepeace: The
Newcomes 49 Theobald, John 161
LETTERS to 104 n. , 162
thirteen classics xviii, 41, 46, 66 Thoreau, Henry David 67
Thseng-sie, see Zeng Xi
Tolstoy, Leo 49, 51
Tsang, O. Z. : A Complete Chinese-English
Dictionary xxi, 48, 207, 208, 211, 213, 214,
216, 218, 224
Tschumi, Raymond 116
Tse` Hsi, see Cixi
Tseng Hsi, see Zeng Xi
Tseng, Pao Swen (Zeng Baosun) xxi, 9, 10, 11,
171, 190
and EP 9-11
as source of Canto 49: xv, 10-1, 15-7 ''Changsha'' 10
''Xiangxiang'' 10
176, 188 seal text of 112 i, 157
62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 107-8,
see also (under Pound, Ezra) Classic Anthology Shih, see Shi jing
Shu jing (Book of History) 46-7, 52, 66, 70, 122,
136, 146, 176
as source of Rock-Drill cantos xiii, xv, 41, 96
Shun (Yu* Shun) xiii, 136
Sima* Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien) 48, 103, 169 Sino-Japanese relation xvi
EP on 24-5, 28, 30-1, 33, 36
Fengchi Yang on 26-7, 29-30, 32, 34-5 sinology 17, 47, 74, 75, 87, 118, 132, 151
and Confucianism 119
Song Yu (Sung Yu ? ; So ? -Gyoku) 3, 73
Sophokles 87, 89, 94, 142, 147
'Southern Anthology,' see Chuci
Spann*, Marcella (Booth) 168, 172, 178, 191, 193 Spender, Stephen 191
Spring and Autumn, see Chunqiu
Square Dollar series 107, 149, 182
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, see Sima Qian
Stalin, Joseph 23, 24
index 241
242
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Tseng, Yueh-nung (Zeng Yuenong) 11 Tu Fu, see Du Fu
Tuan Szetsun 119
Tucci*, Giuseppe 37, 71, 84
Tunghai University 11 Twayne (publishers) 107
UNESCO 196
United Nations xxi, 96
University of Chicago 1
University of London 8, 10 University of Pennsylvania 136, 139 University of Rome 18
University of Washington 10, 88 usury 18, 23, 24, 30, 31
Valeri, Diego 24, 25
Valle, Pedro A. del 73
Van Buren, Martin (US president) 155
Vicari, Giambattista 147
Viktor, Chlodwig Karl (German chancellor) 67 Voltaire 124, 178
Waley, Arthur xviii, 106, 120
Wang, David (Wang Shenfu) 11, 167, 172
and EP xiv, xvii, 172-3
The Goblet Moon 175
''The Grandfather Cycle'' 188, 189, 191 LETTERS from 175-6, 178-9, 181, 182 n. ,
186-7, 188-9, 190 n, 191-3, 195, 195 n. LETTERS to 176-8, 179-80, 181-6, 187-8,
189-90 193-5
''Tang & Sung Poems'' 172, 184, 185
Wang Jingwei (Wang Chin Wei) 27, 28 Wang* Shouren (Wang Shou-jen; Wang Yang-
ming) 102, 142
Wang* Wei 178, 186, 192
Wang Yang-ming, see Wang Shouren
Wang Youpu (Ouang-iu-p'uh) 173, 183
Water Margin, see One Hundred and Eight Bandits Wen, King (orig. Ji* Chang) 48-9, 51, 103, 208 WHIB ('Wheat in bread party') 173 Whitehead, Alfred 62
Whitman, Walt 136, 139
William II (German emperor) 33
Williams, Oscar 191
Williams, Samuel Wells: Syllabic
Dictionary of the Chinese Language 48, 54
Williams, William Carlos 173, 185, 187, 189, 191, 195
LETTER from 185 n.
Wilson, Harriet 136
Wilson, McNair: The Gipsy-Queen of Paris 119
Wilson*, Thomas James 107, 108-9, 115, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 136, 144, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160
LETTERS from 108-9, 128 n. Witemeyer, Hugh 173
World War I 102
World War II xviii, 19, 81
Wu Yung 119
xiao (hsiao) ? (filial piety) 51, 134
Xiao jing (Book on Filial Piety) 52
xin (hsin) ? ('make it new') 104, 148, 149,
188
Xu* Shen (Hsu ? Shen): Shuowen jiezi 57, 61, 76,
79, 95, 145, 172
Yale University 126, 139, 158, 194 Yang Chu, see Yang Zhu
Yang Fengchi (Yang Fengqi) 18
and EP xiv, 18-9
as EP's guide xvi 19, 29, 37, 39
as EP's opponent xvi, xviii, 19, 26-7, 29-30,
34-5
LETTERS from 26-7, 29-30, 31-2, 34-5, 36,
37, 39
LETTERS to 23-5, 27-8, 30-1, 32-4, 35, 36,
37-9
Yang Zhu (Yang Chu) 2
Yao (Tang* Yao) xiii, 135, 136
Yeats, William Butler 60, 186
yi(i) ? (righteousness) 66, 67, 80, 82,
83, 84
Yi jing (I Ching)(Book of Changes) 48, 50, 52, 66,
103, 192
EP's study of xvii, 53, 54
Yongzheng (Iong Ching)(Chinese emperor) xiii, 46, 172, 173, 183, 184
Zeng Xi (Tseng Hsi; Thseng-sie) 9, 10, 38, 39 Zhang Junmai, see Chang, Carsun
zheng ming ? ? (precise naming) 23
zhi (chih) ? ('the hitching post') xxi, 42, 52, 97,
208
zhi (chih) ?
