[Wgcp-whc] 1st meeting--Yale Poetics: Fenollosa & Pound

[richard.deming at yale.edu]

Dear All,

First, let me remind everyone of the first meeting of the Poetics Group.
 This will happen this coming Friday (9/23).  We meet in room 116 in the
Whitney Humanities Center at 3 PM.  The topic of the first session will
be Ezra Pound's use/misuse/misprision of Chinese characters by way of
his encounters with Ernest Fenellosa and Lucas Klein will be presenting
to the group the parameters and specifics of the research project on
which he has been working.  Below, I'll include Lucas's explanation of
what he'll be discussing with the group.  The text that we will be
looking at   is attached to this e-mail.


Also, a reminder that the following session will be devoted to a
discussion of French poet/philospher, Michel DeGuy.  The most basic
description of Deguy and his work is available here:
http://france.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23609

--Richard Deming, Group Scribe

----- Forwarded message from Lucas Klein <Lucas.Klein at yale.edu> -----
    Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:02:21 -0400
    From: Lucas Klein <Lucas.Klein at yale.edu>
Reply-To: Lucas Klein <Lucas.Klein at yale.edu>
 Subject: Fenollosa & Pound
      To: richard.deming at yale.edu
 
 

The enclosed essay is a typescript of the Ernest Fenollosa manuscript "The
Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry," an explanation of various
points of the Chinese language and its classical poetry, which became for
Pound a focal point in his development of a new aesthetics based on the
"ideogrammic method." The essay, after significant edits by Pound, was
published in 1919, 1920, 1936, and is currently most readily available in a
City Lights edition originally published in 1964. Meanwhile, the essay as
Fenollosa wrote it, along with Pound's editorial remarks, have been stored
in the Beinecke Library.

 

For the past few months Jonathan Stalling, Haun Saussy, and I have been
typing up, annotating, and compiling materials from the Fenollosa files in
Pound's collection in the Beinecke, working towards a book project that will
grant access to the discussion of aesthetics, language, and poetry that
happened between Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa, two men of different eras
who never met. Our recovered version of "The Chinese Written Character as a
Medium for Poetry" will be published as one of a handful of Fenollosa
manuscripts Pound read, edited, and drew from throughout his life.

 

 

 

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to say.

 

Lucas

 

 

 

 


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Richard:

 

Haun made a .pdf of our edit of the essay (attached), so you can now
distribute it over email to the Contemporary Poetics group.

 

By way of introduction, I'll say the following:

 

The enclosed essay is a typescript of the Ernest Fenollosa manuscript "The
Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry," an explanation of various
points of the Chinese language and its classical poetry, which became for
Pound a focal point in his development of a new aesthetics based on the
"ideogrammic method." The essay, after significant edits by Pound, was
published in 1919, 1920, 1936, and is currently most readily available in a
City Lights edition originally published in 1964. Meanwhile, the essay as
Fenollosa wrote it, along with Pound's editorial remarks, have been stored
in the Beinecke Library.

 

For the past few months Jonathan Stalling, Haun Saussy, and I have been
typing up, annotating, and compiling materials from the Fenollosa files in
Pound's collection in the Beinecke, working towards a book project that will
grant access to the discussion of aesthetics, language, and poetry that
happened between Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa, two men of different eras
who never met. Our recovered version of "The Chinese Written Character as a
Medium for Poetry" will be published as one of a handful of Fenollosa
manuscripts Pound read, edited, and drew from throughout his life.

 

 

 

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to say.

 

Lucas

 

 

 

 

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