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Robert Morgan

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

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Robert Morgan is saying that reading Pound's work translating Chinese poetry had a major impact on him, more so than anything else he encountered at that time. He also notes that he found Eliot's poetry important, but he discovered it after Pound's translation.

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