{"product_id":"ezra-pound-translations-9780811201643","title":"Ezra Pound: Translations","description":"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: \u003cem\u003eThe Seafarer\u003c\/em\u003e. Chinese: (Cathay) Rihaku (Li Po). Bunno, Mei Sheng, T'ao Yuan Ming. Egyptian: \u003cem\u003eConversations in Courtship\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePound, Ezra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - New Directions has been the primary publisher of \u003cstrong\u003eEzra Pound\u003c\/strong\u003e in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: \"Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.\" Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514536268050,"sku":"9780811201643","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c63a5a05-0845-4b6d-8698-0c517d6b2a22.jpg?v=1730986503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ezra-pound-translations-9780811201643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}