Logan Republican | 1919-09-09 | Page 3 | Ancient Chinese Poetry as "Written Pictures"

' Ancient Chinese Poetry M as "Written Pictures" ('l Several translations of sixteenth, ' I eighteenth and nineteenth century Chi- H neso poems, which have Just lieen , H printed In mi Amerlean inngiixlne of I verse, will htrlke many casual rend- LH I ers as being very much like ocelden- ' tal vers llbre; and It Is also notice- ' I able. that these poems, widely apart 'I In time, are very near together In ' ,fl feeling and technical manner. Tho ' Chinese poet. In fact,, seems to hnvo t I nnllclpiiled by several centuries tho , 'U "latest thing" In Western verse tx- ' ! presslon. And perhaps tills Is really I ' the eahe. The Chinese term for such f I poems Is, literally translated, "writ- l ten pictures," which will also seem I to many modern readers a good work- I M Ing dellnltlon for vera llbrt Chris- ' 'I tlun Science Monitor. .l