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Confucius to Cummings (1964) is a highbrow anthology of poetry written by Ezra Pound in collaboration with Pound's acolyte, Marcella Spann, published by New Directions.

The anthology was the last of five such poetry anthologies edited by Pound, the others being: Des Imagistes(1914), Catholic Anthology(1915), Profile(1932), Active Anthology(1933).

The anthology, which was written for "those who read only English", has transcriptions and translations of poems into English.

The collection of poems is arranged in chronological order, with the exception of an anonymous Egyptian poem from pp.278-283, by the date of the original poems' translation into English.

In the preface, Marcella Spann states: William Cookson has said that it would be nearly impossible to assemble a body of writing in any language that "for wisdom and continuous beauty" would stand against the Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius; in choosing the poems included here we have kept this challenge, and the example of the Confucian collection, in mind.

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 * http://www.questia.com/read/78684348?title=Preface
 * http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/ramblings/pound3.html
 * http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/pound/anthology.htm
 * http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/american_literary_scholarship/v1999/1999.1marsh.pdf
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