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    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

    By Ezra Pound

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 1999
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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    Ezra Pound

    Ezra Pound (1885–1972) is one of the most influential, and controversial, poets of the twentieth century. His poetry remains vital, challenging, contentious, unassimilable.

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      Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - Ezra Pound

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, by Ezra Pound

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

      Author: Ezra Pound

      Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23538]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY ***

      Produced by Lewis Jones

      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.

                  ________

      Ode pour l'élection de son sepulcher II. III. IV. V. Yeux Glauques Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma Brennbaum Mr. Nixon X. XI. XII.

      ____________

                  ENVOI

                  1919

              ____________

      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

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