A Dialogue on Chinese and English Poetics
Princeton University: March 27-31, 2017

On campus discussions will be held in the library at Prospect House

Monday, March 27:

9 a.m.—coffee and fruit—Prospect Library

Welcome and brief presentation of research interests by everyone

3-5- -translation discussion and experiments

Wednesday, March 29: focus on periodization/canonization in English and Chinese traditions

9:30-11:30 Prospect Library— coffee and fruit discussion—Pound’s Cathay; the May 4 (1919) movement in Chinese Modernism

2-4 further discussion—poets’ poets in English tradition [Bishop and Herbert/Stevens and Keats/ Brooks and Pope, for example] the continuity and break with earlier forms in modern and contemporary Chinese poetry

Friday, March 31:

9:30-11:30 Prospect Library—discussion and further translation exercises

working with time and cultural frames

lunch break

3-5// Poetry Reading by all participants—McCormick 106