BK. Ezra Pound

203. Griffin, Larry D. ‘Japanese Noh Drama and Ezra Pound’s “Fourth Canto”’ (31).  Conference of College Teachers of English Proceedings 55 (1995): 84-94.

Griffin argues that the nô ‘added to [Pound’s] development of the super-pository convention’ (see 12) and that the results are especially noticeable in canto IV. Limited by lack of acquaintance with earlier scholarship and, particularly, lack of knowledge that Pound had available the Fenollosa/Hirata translation of Takasago (see 88d and 90b).