Ezra Pound was a central figure of Modernism who approached poetry with a musical sensibility. His expansive work, which integrated music and words, drew inspiration from the troubadour tradition where melody and poem existed in perfect symbiosis. Pound emphasized the importance of rhythm and translation as tools for developing poetic style, though he himself rarely set his own verses to music.
This outstanding work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the most innovative poets of the first half of the 20th century, provides Western readers with complete translations of 15 plays, plus the historical background and development of the Noh theater.