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Ezra Pound’s Cathay and the Transmission of Tang Poetry to the West

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The early twentieth century witnessed the decline of New Romanticism, which was a combination of Symbolism, Aestheticism, and Romanticism in European literature. Creative writings disintegrated into oversentimental moaning and ethical sermonizing.

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Jiang, L. (2018). Ezra Pound’s Cathay and the Transmission of Tang Poetry to the West. In: A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated Tang Poetry. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56352-6_11

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