Confucius

Ezra Pound's "translation" of Confucius is impressionistic and gives a better view of Pound's philosophy than Confucius's. (In this respect, it is rather like Fitzgerald's famous English translation of the Rubaiyat, which is wonderful as English poetry, but may not represent what Omar Khayyam actually intended.) A great feature of this edition, though, is that is contains the original Chinese text, so with a dictionary and a lot of patience, you can come up with your own impressionistic translation. ( )