Ezra Pound’s orientalist poetry, natural rootedness, and Lepidoptera

Using Distributional Semantics to Trace Influence and Imitation in Romantic Orientalist Poetry

In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary or formal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moore in the genre of Romantic Orientalism. In particular, we identify and trace Byron’s influence on Moore’s writings to query whether Moore imitated Byron, as many reviewers of the time suggested. We use a Dis...

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Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics

In his paper, "Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics," Naikan Tao concentrates on Pound's theories regarding comparison and examines the significance of his comparative studies to the formulation of his poetics, an aspect that has not been sufficiently investigated. On the basis of Pound's work, Tao observes that the conception of comparison Pound shaped through his comparative studies is the intern...

Gustave Alexandre Liétard, orientalist and physician.

IN 1972 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine acquired an important collection of letters, reprints, and manuscripts belonging to Dr. Lietard of Plombieres. This collection gives an interesting insight to the thinking of medical historians interested in traditional oriental medicine during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, and giv...

The Real-rootedness of Generalized Narayana Polynomials

Abstract. In this paper, we prove the real-rootedness of two classes of generalized Narayana polynomials: one arising as the h-polynomials of the generalized associahedron associated to the finite Weyl groups, the other arising in the study of the infinite log-concavity of the Boros-Moll polynomials. For the former, Brändén has already proved that these hpolynomials have only real zeros. We est...