What is the/a Kiang???

- Posted: 23.Jun.2009.




The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner gives a few examples of where Pound went astray in his Cathay, concluding that, "Pound did not bring to the notebooks a prior scholarly grasp of canonical Chinese poetry, and often made wrong decisions when he was unaware of making a decision at all." Kenner also notes that Cathay contains one of the finest WWI war-poems, if this is so it has not been recognized by the anthologies I have checked.