{"product_id":"confucius-the-great-digest-the-unwobbling-pivot-the-analects-9780811201544","title":"Confucius: The Great Digest, the Unwobbling Pivot, the Analects","description":"The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound's life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius), Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese history, and in the later Cantos key motifs are often given in Chinese quotations with the characters set into the English text. His introduction to Oriental literature was chiefly through Ernest Fenollosa whose translations and notes were given him by the scholars widow in London about 1913. From these notebooks came, in time, the superb poems entitled \u003cem\u003eCathay\u003c\/em\u003e and Pound's edition of Fenollosa's \u003cem\u003eChinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. But it was Confucius' ethical and political teachings--that most influenced Pound. And now, for the first time, his versions, with commentary, of three basic texts that he translated have been assembled in one volume: \u003cem\u003eThe Great Digest\u003c\/em\u003e (Ta Hsio), first published in 1928; \u003cem\u003eThe Unwobbling Pivot\u003c\/em\u003e (Chung Yung), 1947; and \u003cem\u003eThe Analects\u003c\/em\u003e (Lun-yü), 1950. For the first two, the Chinese characters from the ancient Stone Classics\" are printed en face in our edition, with a note by Achilles Fang. Pound never wanted to be a literal translator. What he could do, as no other could, is to identify the essence, pick out what matters now, and phrase it so pungently, so beautifully, that it will stick in the head and start new thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ezra Pound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.67h x 5.43w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811201544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40747517083763,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a30116fe-0683-4139-8882-45aaa5683748.jpg?v=1678202544","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/confucius-the-great-digest-the-unwobbling-pivot-the-analects-9780811201544","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}