What’s new in these pages? (August 2003)

August 25, 2003
Archive: additions are William Empson, China (1940), Alfred Noyes, Japanese Doves (1941), Paul Goodman, The Cyclist (1941), and George Barker, from Pacific Sonnets (1944).

August 24, 2003
Archive: additions are William Plomer, Captain Maru (1936) and Thoughts on the Japanese Invasion of China (1938), Keith Douglas, Encounter with a God (1936), W. Dennis Hinde, To a Geisha (1937), William Empson, Aubade and The Beautiful Train (both 1937), Elsie Yehling, Japanese Briefs (1938), Edmund Blunden, In the Margin (1938), Ogden Nash, The Japanese (1938), W. B. Yeats, Imitated from the Japanese (1938), and W. H. Auden, from In Time of War (1939).

August 23, 2003
Archive: additions are Edmund Blunden, The Daimyo’s Pond (1924), J. Caldwell Johnston, The Praises of Fuji (1925), Robinson Jeffers, The Woman’s First Song, from Dear Judas (1928), William Plomer, Earthquake (1927), Two Hotels (1929), and Autumn Near Tokyo (1929), Laurence Binyon, Koya San, Matsushima, and Miyajima (all 1932), and Basil Bunting, from Chomei at Toyama (1932).

August 21, 2003
Archive: additions are S. Foster Damon, Kiri no Meijiyama (1920), Ellen Janson, Japanese Night-Song (1921), Amy Lowell, from Twenty-Four Hokku on a Modern Theme (1921), Jun Fujita, Japanese Brush-Strokes (1923), W. B. Yeats, from Meditations in Time of Civil War (1923), Edmund Blunden, A ‘First Impression’: Tokyo (1924), and Tobias Hill, One Day in Hiroshima, from A Year in Japan, and Playing Chess with the Elder Mrs Uchida (all 1996).

August 17, 2003
Archive: additions are Witter Bynner, In Kamakura (1920), Stanley Kimmel, From the Book of a Japanese Urchin (1920), Hilda Conkling, Japanese Picture (1920), and Andrew Fitzsimons, from Essays in Idleness (2001).

August 13, 2003
A measure of interactivity has been added to themargins.net. From the index page (or here) you may view the new guestbook, and I would be pleased if you would sign it, as well.

The FreeFind search page has been redesigned.

August 12, 2003
Home: a new list of domains from which themargins.net has been accessed has been added to the site.

Archive and Bibliography: to better represent the range of writers whose work is addressed the subtitle of these areas has been changed from “. . . Japan in Anglo-American Verse” to “. . . Japan in English-Language Verse.”