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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 AESTUS 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
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_MAUBERLEY_
CONTENTS
Part I.
________

_Ode pour l'election 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In a half savage country, out of date;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 from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;

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