San Antonio College Library

An anecdotal account of Pound's life precedes detailed analyses of The Cantos, his early lyrics, and his critical writings.

"No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism." "How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to...

The author tries to look into Ezra Pound's mind as a poet and learn the concepts and techniques of Pound at the time Pound translated the Cathay poems from Chinese to English.