Ezra Pound
Overview of the poem]
'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter' was published in 1915 in Ezra
Pound's third collection of poetry, Cathay: Translations, which contains
versions of Chinese poems composed from the sixteen notebooks of Ernest
Fenollosa, a scholar of Chinese literature. Pound called the poems in
English which resulted from the Fenollosa manuscripts "translations,"
but as such they are held in contempt by most scholars of Chinese
language and literature. However, they have been acclaimed as "…
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…engendering a progression of centered images in a sequence, or pattern,
of human thought and emotion.Accordingly, David E. Ward postulates that
the guiding principle of Pound's theory is a belief in a shared poetic
tradition that allows full expression of the emotional patterns of human
experience and response. 'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter' is an
eloquent manifestation of this principle.
My own two bits? Heartbreakingly beautiful and poignant; there's nothing
more I can say.
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