The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan

by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa (With)

Overview

The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811201520
Publisher:	WW Norton Client New Directions
Publication date:	01/10/2007
Series:	New Directions Paperbook , #79
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

Editorial Reviews

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