Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Prologue: The Place of the Orient in the Modernist Movement
I. Pound's Road to China
1. "Getting Orient from All Quarters": Binyon, Upward, Fenollosa
2. Via Giles: Qu Yuan, Liu Che, Lady Ban
3. China Contra Greece in Des Imagistes
4. The Pound-Fenollosa Venture: An Overview
5. Via Fenollosa: Taoism versus Vorticism in Cathay
6. Imitating Wang Wei: Toward The Cantos
II. Williams' Early Encounter with the Chinese
7. "Give Me Your Face, Yang Kue Fei!"
8. In the Shadow of Bo Juyi: Sour Grapes
9. Escaping the Old Mode in Spring and All
10. In Pursuit of Minimal, Agrammatical Form
Epilogue: The Beginning of a Literary Era
Appendix I: A Transcript of Fenollosa's Notes for "Taking Leave of a Friend"
Appendix II: A Typescript of Pound's Drafts for Eight Poems of Wang Wei
Appendix III: A Descriptive List of Works on Oriental Subjects from Williams' Library Now at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Elsewhere
Notes
Works Cited
Index