1
“Modern Poetry and the Imagists,” in The Egoist (London), June 1, 1914.
2
“affirmations: As for Imagisme,” in The New Age, January 28, 1915.
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Π
τνια, πτνια] O goddess, O goddess
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Jamque vale!] Now farewell!
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ego sum] I am
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sono io] O I speak out
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Dria] in the Doric manner, or “things Doric.”
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Nympharum membra disjecta] The scattered limbs of the nymph
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To Kαλ
ν] The beautiful
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Ernest Fenollosa was a scholar of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Fenollosa’s widow encouraged Pound to use her husband’s notes and glosses of the written characters.