Ebook: Cathay: A Critical Edition

An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.

Pound's landmark volume Cathay (1915) established the voice of modernism—and established it as a voice of translation. In English renderings of classical Chinese poetry, Pound developed the muscular precision that came to define American literary style.