Cathay by Unknown

Cathay by Unknown

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English Arts

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Episodes 17

Avg. Duration 3m

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Since Dec 2025

Latest Episode Jan 2026

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About This Podcast

The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/ interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon.

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Recent Episodes

Song of the Bowmen of Shu

Jan 02, 2026 2m

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The Beautiful Toilet

Jan 01, 2026 1m

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The River Song

Dec 31, 2025 3m

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The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

Dec 30, 2025 2m

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Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

Dec 29, 2025 2m

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The Jewel Stair’s Grievance

Dec 28, 2025 1m

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Lament of the Frontier Guard

Dec 27, 2025 2m

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Exile’s Letter

Dec 26, 2025 5m

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Four Poems of Departure

Dec 25, 2025 2m

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The City of Choan

Dec 24, 2025 1m

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South-Folk In Cold Country

Dec 23, 2025 1m

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Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku

Dec 22, 2025 1m

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A Ballad of the Mulberry Tree

Dec 21, 2025 1m

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Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu

Dec 20, 2025 2m

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To Em-Mei’s : The Unmoving Cloud

Dec 19, 2025 2m

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The Seafarer

Dec 18, 2025 7m

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The Alchemist

Dec 17, 2025 4m

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