Ezra Pound
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - Ezra Pound
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Title: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Author: Ezra Pound
Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23538]
Language: English
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Pound, Ezra (1920) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley
BY
E. P.
THE OVID PRESS 1920
VOCAT ÆSTUS IN UMBRAM
Nemesianus Ec. IV.
H. S. Mauberley
(LIFE AND CONTACTS)
Transcriber's note: Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley contains accents, diphthongs and Greek characters. Facsimile images of the poems as originally published are freely available online from the Internet Archive. Please use these images to check for any errors or inadequacies in this electronic text.
MAUBERLEY
CONTENTS
Part I.
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Ode pour l'élection de son sepulcher II. III. IV. V. Yeux Glauques Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma
Brennbaum Mr. Nixon X. XI. XII.
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ENVOI
1919
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Part II. 1920 (Mauberley)
I.
II.
III. The age demanded
IV.
V. Medallion
E.P. ODE POUR SELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE
FOR three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain the sublime
In the old sense. Wrong from the start—
No hardly, but, seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies