Ezra Pound is obsessed with Chinese classical culture, and his poems are also deeply influenced by Chinese classical culture. His poetry creation draws on the Chinese classical poetry to create artistic conception and embody feelings in the scene, and the content also reflects the praise of Chinese Confucian ideas everywhere. Taking The Pisan Cantos as the research object, this paper discusses the process of Pound and Chinese classical culture and the methods of Chinese classical poetry creation and Confucianism of The Pisan Cantos reflected in the perspective of comparative poetics, and finally makes a brief evaluation of Pound.

Cao Yuqian. Pound's Reference to Classical Chinese Culture——Taking "The Pisan Cantos" as an Example. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 14: 115-120. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.051419.

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