Question

After the work of Ernest Fenollosa introduced him to a foreign genre of theater, this author wrote a play that begins with musicians evoking a place that “the salt sea wind has swept bare.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this writer whose 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well was heavily influenced by Japanese Noh dramas.
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats
[10e] Yeats was introduced to Fenollosa and the Noh drama through this Modernist poet of the Cantos and the haiku-like “In a Station of the Metro.”
ANSWER: Ezra Pound [or Ezra Weston Loomis Pound]
[10h] A “razor-keen” katana given to Yeats by Junzo Sato partly inspired a poem in the form of a dialogue between these two concepts. The second of these two concepts defiantly asserts “a charter to commit the crime once more.”
ANSWER: self and soul [or “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”]
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