Books by Ernest Fenollosa

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First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. This edition of Fenollosa's important work is accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages.