Instigations

by Ezra Pound

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The title page presents a collection by Ezra Pound together with an essay on the Chinese written character by Ernest Fenollosa. The contents list a study in French poets, sections on Henry James and Remy de Gourmont, and a section on translators of Greek. The literary discussion says that the necessity, or at least advisability, of comparing English or American work with French work is not readily accepted by the usual English or American writer.

The discussion asks the reader to note the completeness of Mr. Eliot's depiction of the contemporary condition. The linguistic discussion says that Chinese transitive sentences and English, with particles omitted, correspond to a universal form of action in nature. The account connects different sentence order in inflected languages with tags, word endings, or labels identifying agents and objects.