{"product_id":"2263726","title":"Ezra Pound: Translations (ND Paperbook 145)","description":"448 pp. \"Ezra Pound is destined to rank as one of the great translators of all time. Ranging through many languages, he chose for translation writers whose work marked a significant turning point in the development of world literature, or key poems which exemplify what is most vital in a given period or genre. This new enlarged edition, devoted chiefly to poetry, includes some forty pages of previously uncollected material. Anglo-Saxon: The Seafarer. Chinese: (Cathay) Rihaku (Li Po). Bunno, Mei Sheng, T'ao Yuan Ming. Egyptian: Conversations in Courtship. French: du Bellay, de Boufflers, D'Orléans, Lalorgue, Lubicz-Milosz, Rimbaud, Tailhade. Prose: de Gourmont. Hindi: Kabir. Italian: Cavalcanti, St. Francis, Guinicelli, Leopardi, Montanari, Orlandi. Japanese Noh Plays: 15 plays with Fenollosa's commentary. Latin: Catullus, Horace, Navagero, Rutilius. Provençal: Bertrand de Born, Cercalmon, Daniel, Folquet de Romans, Li Viniers, Ventadorn.\" \"Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. During the second decade of the twentieth century, Pound opened an exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such contemporaries as Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and, especially, T. S. Eliot. His own significant contributions to poetry begin with his promotion of Imagism, a poetry movement which derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry to stress clarity, precision and economy of language. Imagism abandoned traditional rhyme and meter in order to, in Pound's words, \"compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome.\" His later work, spanning nearly fifty years, focused on his epic poem The Cantos.\"","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12596555186246,"sku":"2263726","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2263726.jpg?v=1571425577","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2263726","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}