It took a translation to hear the stories of this GREEK epic the way a woman would have told them

That's what TS Eliot wrote in his introduction to Ezra Pound's Collected Poems – he was speaking of Cathay, Pound's translation of classical Chinese poetry which, since its publication, has seen a series of criticisms of inaccuracies. But Pound is also lauded for his ability (and audacity) to act as a ...

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