The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa

Book Overview

This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George Kennedy of Yale, who called it "a small mass of confusion."

The old theory as to the nature of the Chinese written character (which Pound and Fenollosa followed) is that the written character is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872860140
• ISBN13: 9780872860148
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.8"