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ON CHINESE POETRY LU CHI Rhymeprose on Literature (tr. Achilles Fang) ERNEST FENOLLOSA & EZRA POUND from The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS On Rexroth’s One Hundred Poems from the Chinese KENNETH REXROTH Tu Fu GARY SNYDER Hsieh’s Shoes Empty Mountain Distant Hills KENNETH REXROTH & GARY SNYDER Chinese Poetry and the American Imagination DAVID HINTON On Po Chü-i SOURCES NOTES 183 191 194 198 201 203 206 209 213 217 221 xiv
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HSIN: (From hatchet, to erect, and wood.) To cut down wood; fresh; new; to renovate; to renew or improve the state of; to restore or to increase what is good, —applied to persons increasing in virtue; and to the daily increase of plants. JIH: (Intended to represent the object.) The sun; the day; a day; daily; every day. —Rev. Robert Morrison, A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, 1815-1823 They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching Thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 Tching prayed on the mountain and wrote MAKE IT NEW on his bath tub Day by day make it new —Ezra Pound, Canto LIII, 1940 hsin1 jih4 jih4 hsin1 xv

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HSIN: (From hatchet, to erect, and wood.) To cut down wood; fresh; new; to renovate; to renew or improve the state of; to restore or to increase what is good, —applied to persons increasing in virtue; and to the daily increase of plants.

JIH: (Intended to represent the object.) The sun; the day; a day; daily; every day.

—Rev. Robert Morrison,

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, 1815-1823

They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching Thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Tching prayed on the mountain and wrote MAKE IT NEW on his bath tub

Day by day make it new

—Ezra Pound, Canto LIII, 1940

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