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Notes
1. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan Dramatists’ (London: Faber and Faber, 1968
[1963]), p. 6.
2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 11.
3. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 17.
4. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 27.
5. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 32.
6. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 33. Suffice it to think of Shakespeare’s Italy
and of Byron’s carnivals, but also of contemporary British crime fiction set in
Italy, such as that produced by Michael Dibdin, or of Jeanette Winterson’s
Venetian ‘passions’.
7. Michele Marrapodi et. al (eds.), Shakespeare’s Italy: Functions of Italian
Locations in Renaissance Drama (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993).
8. Antony Easthope, Englishness and National Culture (London: Routledge,
1988); Philip Dodd and Robert Colls (eds.) Englishness (London: Routledge,
1987); Paul Langford, Englishness Identified (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2001); Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare (London: Chatto & Windus, 1990);
Alessandra Marzola, Englishness (Florence: Carocci, 1999).
9. T.S. Eliot, ‘Elizabethan’, p. 53.
10. Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by T.S.
Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1928), pp. x-xi.
11. Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (London: Faber and Faber, 1974 [1954]), p.
xi.
12. Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, p. xvii.
13. Ernest Fenellosa and Ezra Pound The Chinese Written Character as a
Medium for Poetry, Little Review, 6:5, (September 1919), pp. 62-64; reprinted in
Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose, Contributions to Periodicals, eds. Lea Baechler,
James Longenbach and Walton A. Litz (New York: Garland, 1991), vol. III, pp.
326-328; 331-336; 346-351; 361-364. Among the many works by Pound on the
East see Cathai (London: Elkin Mathews, 1915), translated as Catai, ed. Mary
de Rachelwiltz (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1987); Plays Modelled on the No, (1916) ed.
Donald Gallup (Toledo: Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1987);
Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa, ‘Noh’ or Accomplishment: A Study of the
Classical Stage of Japan (London: Macmillan, 1916); Confucio. Ta Hsueh.Ta S’eu.
Dai Gaku. Studio integrale, Italian version by Ezra Pound and Alberto Luchini
(Rapallo, 1942); Testamento di Confucio, versione italiana di Ezra Pound e Alberto
Luchini (Venezia: Casa delle edizioni popolari, 1942); Confucio. Studio integrale
dell’asse che non vacilla, (1928) con una nota di Achilles Fang (Milan, 1955).
See also Ezra Pound and Japan. Letters and Essays, ed. Samehide Kodama
(Redding Ridge: Black Swan, 1987) and Makoto Ueda, Zeami, Basho, Yeats,
Pound. A Study in Japanese and English Poetics (The Hague: Mouton, 1965).
14. ‘The Chinese Written Character’, p. 332.
15. ‘The Chinese’, pp. 349-50.
16. ‘The Chinese’, p. 362.