Dec 22, 2009
Ezra Pound was the most influential translator of poetry in the twentieth century. He translated, sometimes with assistance, from Greek, Latin, Provençal, Italian, French, German, Old English, Chinese, and Japanese. The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953) contains most of his poetic translations; there are also two separate books of Chinese translations, The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius (or The Confucian Odes, 1954) and Confucius (1969), which gathers together in one volume Pound’s translations of The Analects,...
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