Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics
If poets are, as P. B. Shelley wrote, 鈥渢he unacknowledged legislators of the world,鈥 then translation must be one of the unacknowledged legislators of poetry. Certainly translation of Chinese poetry has been essential to modern American writing: Ezra Pound鈥檚 Cathay didn鈥檛 just invent, as T. S. Eliot put it, 鈥淐hinese ...
>

