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  1. Fenollosa, Ernest: The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Edited by Ezra Pound. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969 [1936].*
  2. Pound, Ezra & Marcella Spann (ed.): Confucius to Cummings. An Anthology of Poetry. New York: New Directions, 1964.* (M. Spann: Preface; E. Pound: Confucius to Cummings: Preface; Publisher's Note; Confucius: from The Classic Anthology: from Chou and the South, IV; from Shao and the South, III; X; from Airs of Pei, X; from Yung Wind, VIII; X; from Mei Wind, IV; from Songs of Cheng, II; IX; XII; XIII; from Songs of T'ang, XI; from Songs of Ch'en, X; from Deer Sing, IV (tr. E. Pound); Homer: from the Odyssey: IV,58-71; IV,108-110; IV,154-170; XIV,152-165; XIV,522-531 (tr. G. Chapman); Sappho: Achtung (tr. T. Hardy); Aeschylus: from the Agamemnon: The Signal Fire (tr. D. Simpson); Sophokles: from Women of Trachis (tr. E. Pound); Theocritus: from the Idylls: The Enchantment (tr. T. Creech); Lucretius: from De Rerum Natura, III,830-853 (tr. J. Dryden); Catullus: Odi et Amo, LXXXV (tr. E. Pound); Virgil: from the Aeneid, I,1-10 (tr. G. Douglas); Horace: from the Odes: I,31; I,11; III,30 (tr. E. Pound); Ovid: from the Metamorphoses: III,150-309; VIII,245-313; VIII,424-680; VIII,785-909; XI,94-216; XIII,929-1021; XV,984-995 (tr. A. Golding); Rutilius: Roma (tr. E. Pound); Boethius: from De Consolatione Philosophiae, II,V (tr. Elizabeth I); Anonymous: The Seafarer (tr. E. Pound); Rihaku (Li Po): Exile's Letter (tr. E. Pound); Godeschalk: Sequaire (tr. E. Pound); Annymous: Hierusalem (tr. anonymously, 16th c.); The "Old Captive": from Aucassin and Nicolette (tr. A. Lang); Bertrans de Born: "A Perigord pres del Muralh"; A War Song (tr. E. Pound); Bernart de Ventadorn: The Lark (tr. E. Pound); Walther von der Vogelweide: Under the Lindens (tr. F.M. Ford); Arnaut Daniel: "L'Aura Amara"; "Autet e Bas" (tr. E. Pound); St. Francis of Assisi: Cantico del Sole (tr. E. Pound); Guido Guinicelli: Canzone: of the Gentle Heart (tr. D.G. Rossetti); Folgore da San Gemignamo: from Of the Months: Twelve Sonnets, August (tr. D.G. Rossetti); Guido Cavalcanti: Sonetto VII; Sonetto XXXV; Ballata V; Canzone: Donna Mi Priegha (tr. E. Pound); Dante Alighieri: from La Vita Nuova, from Canzone II; from Canzone III; The Conclusion (tr. D.G. Rossetti); Anonymous: Alisoun; William Langland: from The Vision of Piers Plowman; Geoffrey Chaucer: from The Canterbury Tales, from The Prologue; Merciless Beaute; from The Parlement of Foules; Anonymous: Adam Lay Yboundin; Charles d'Orl‚eans: Spring (tr. A. Lang); Anonymous: Dear Son, Leave Thy Weeping; Ave Maria Stella; Franc‡ois Villon: The Complaint of the Fair Armouress; The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad; A Fragment on Death (tr. C.A. Swinburne); His Mother's Service to Our Lady; The Ballad of Dead Ladies (tr. D.G. Rossetti); Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent: from Carnival Songs (tr. R. Aldington); Michelangelo Buonarotti: To the Marchesana of Pescara (tr. W. Wordsworth); Martin Luther: "Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott" (tr. M.W. Stryker); Henry VIII: Pastime; The Holly; To His Lady; William Cornish: Gratitude; Heath: Women; Anonymous: Western Wind; Thomas Wyatt: Epigram; Santa Teresa d'Avila: Bookmark (tr. H.W. Longfellow); Joachim du bellay: A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty (tr. A. Lang); Pierre de Ronsard: Of His Lady's Old Age (tr. A. Lang); Elizabeth I: The Doubt of Future Foes; When I was Fair and Young; George Turberville: The Lover to His Lady; To His Friend; Walter Ralegh: The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd; Epitaph; The Lie; A. W.: Where His Lady Keeps His Heart; Upon Visiting His Lady by Moonlight; In Praise of the Sun; Anthony Munday: Dirge; Robert Greene: The Palmer's Ode; Maesia's Song; The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer; Anonymous: Song Set by Nicholas Yonge; Song Set by John Farmer; Robert Wilson: Simplicity Song; Samuel Daniel:Lonely Beauty; from To Delia, VI; Christopher Marlowe: A Fragment; The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; William Shakespeare: from The Tempest, Ariel's Song; "Where the Bee Sucks"; Epilogue; from The Two Gewntlemen of Verona, "My Thoughts Do Harbour"; from Much Ado About Nothing, "Sigh No More, Ladies"; Epitaph; Song; from Love's Labour's Lost, "If She Be Made of White and Red"; from The Midsummer Night's Dream, "Through the Forest Have I Gone"; Bottom's Song; "Flower of This Purple Dye"; "Up and Down"; "Yet but Three?"; "Asleep, My Love"; "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"; "Through the House"; from As You Like It, Song II,5; Song II,7; "Why Should This a Desert Be?"; Song IV,2; Song IV,3; Song V,3; from The Merchant of Venice, "All that Glisters is not Gold"; "The Fire Seven Times Tried This"; A Song III,2; from Twelfth Night, "O Mistress Mine"; The [Clown's] Song; from Cymbelyne, Song IV,2; from the Sonnets, I; XVIII; XXIX; XXX; LIII; LV; LXVI; LXXIII; CVI; CVII; from King Henry V, Epilogue; John Davies: from Nosce Teipsum, The Soul and the Body; Ben Johnson; from A Celebration of Charis, Her Triumph; Robert Herrick: To His LOvely Mistress; Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose!; To Mr. Henry Lawes; Pietro Metastasio: "Age of Gold" (tr. E. Pound); Marie-Fran‡oise-Catherine de Beaveau, la Marquise de Boufflers: Air: Sentir avec Ardeur (tr. E. Pound); Christopher Smart: from Jubilate Agno, "For I will Consider My Cat Jeoffry"; George Crabbe: from The Borough, Letter XXIV: Schools; Robert Burns: The Birks of Aberfeldy; Bonnie Lesley; Green Grow the Rashes; Walter Savage Landor: Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives; Dirce; George Gordon, Lord Byron: from Don Juan, Fragment; Dedication; Fitz-Green Halleck: from Fanny; Felicia Dorothea Hemans: from The Brereton Omen; John Keats: from Endymion; Thomas Lovell Beddoes: from Death's Jest Book; Elizabeth Barrett Browning: from Sonnets from the Portuguese, VII; IX; X; XIV; XXXVIII; XLIII; John Greenleaf Whittier: Barbara Frietchie; Th‚ophile Gautier: from Ars Victrix (tr. H.A. Dobson); Robert Browning: How It Strikes a Contemporary; Pictor Ignotus; Garden Fancies; Fra Lippo Lippi; Andrea del Sarto; Youth and Art; A Face; A Likeness; Orpheus and Eurydice; Herman Melville: The Ravaged Villa; Walt Whitman; I Sing the Body Electric; The Centenarian's Story; To The States; Dante Gabriel Rossetti: from The House of Life, Song IV: Sudden Light; Algernon Charles Swinburne: from Atalanta in Calydon, Chorus; Francis Bret Harte: Plain Language from Truthful James; James Whitcomb Riley: Good-by er Howdy-do; Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.: from The Sum of Life; Anonymous: from Conversations in Courtship (tr. E. Pound from Italian version of B. de Rachewiltz); Thomas Hardy: Heredity; Under the Waterfall; Faintheart in a Railway Train; The Young Glass-Stainer; William Butler Yeats: Down by the Salley Gardens; When You Are Old; The Moods; He Remembers Forgotten Beauty; He Thinks of Those who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved; The Cold Heaven; To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine; Ford Madox Ford: On Heaven; What the Orderly Dog Saw; "When the World Was in Building"; The Old House of Flanders; Padraic Colum; "I Shall Not Die for Thee";.Wyndham Lewis: from One-Way Song; William Carlso Williams: The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo; Ezra Pound: Villanelle: The Psychological Hour; Envoi (1919); H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]: "Never More Will The Wind"; Marianne Moore: O To Be a Dragon; T.S. Eliot: from Whispers of Immortality; Basil Bunting: Gin the Goodwife Stint; The Complaint of the Morpetshire Farmer; E.E. Cummings: from One Times One, XIII; E. Pound: Postscript; Section for Instructors: Appendix I: A Note on Hardy and Ford, by Ezra Pound; Appendix II: Syllabus, by Vincent Miller; Appendix III: Question for Classroom Use, by Ezra Pound; Appendix IV: Suggestions for Teachers, by Marcella Spann; Appendix V: Selections from the Criticism of Ezra Pound; Index of Poets and Translators; Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems.)