‘A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident’

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Chapter 9 - ‘A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident’

Ezra Pound and Japanese Literature

from Part II - Ezra Pound and Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019

Andrew Houwen

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Summary

Pound’s relationship with Japanese literature can be broadly divided into three areas: the influence of ‘hokku’ on his work, his interest in ‘Noh’ drama, and his own impact on Japanese literature. The first of these has, until recently, dominated in English-language Pound scholarship about Japan.

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haiku tanka renga Japanese poetry poetics of superposition Noh Hagoromo

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Information: The New Ezra Pound Studies , pp. 141 - 156

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