The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner

Author:Hugh Kenner [Hugh Kenner]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1991-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

“I have made a discovery,” Amy later exulted. No one out of China had realized it before. The key to Chinese poetry lay in the overtones imparted by the written character.

Aha! And so much for dependence on Japanese intermediaries. This was just what Fenollosa could not have known: just what would knock that desirable hole in Cathay (where, it may be, she did not notice “flowers that cut the heart,” nor guess that it was based on a notation of knife and gizzard components). And poetic justice should be administered in Poetry. The two of them set to work to vivify vers libre with “split-ups,” Amy’s nickname for dissociated roots. The catalytic sun-behind-grass proved intractable: only “sunset” would fit. Nevertheless they had made a great discovery. Florence was put to work etymologizing every character. In June eleven poems were in the hands of Harriet Monroe, whose first response, that the lines were rather cut up—

My son is ill and neglects to water

the flowers

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