Cathay started reciting the names of the 12 divisions into which, according to Nasir al-Din, the "Cathayans" were dividing the day – and Martini, who of course knew no Persian, was able to continue the list. The names of the 24 solar terms matched as well. The story, soon published by Martini in the "Additamentum" to his Atlas of China, seemed to have finally convinced most European scholars that China and Cathay were the same. Even then, some people still viewed Cathay as distinct from China, as did John Milton in the 11th Book of his "Paradise Lost" (1667). In 1939,
Cathay (poetry collection) and the "invidia" which is directed against me because I have dared openly to declare my belief in certain young artists will be brought to bear on the flaws of such translations". Nonetheless upon the publication of the volume W. B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot remarked on the nature of the poems, their "robustness", with Pound's college friend Williams saying of them "If these were original verses, then Pound was the greatest poet of the day." Cathay (poetry collection) Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist