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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 ?STUS 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.

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No hardly, but, seeing he had been born?In a half savage country, out of date;?Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;?Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;
_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}', {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}_ Caught in the unstopped ear;?Giving the rocks small lee-way?The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year.
His true Penelope was Flaubert,?He fished by obstinate isles;?Observed the elegance of Circe's hair?Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials.
Unaffected by "the march of events,"?He passed from men's memory in _l'an trentiesme?De son eage_; the case presents?No adjunct to the Muses' diadem.
II.
THE age demanded an image?Of its accelerated grimace,?Something for the modern stage,?Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;
Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries?Of the inward gaze;?Better mendacities?Than the classics in paraphrase!
The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,?Made with no loss of time,?A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster?Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
III.
THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc.?Supplants the mousseline of Cos,?The pianola "replaces"?Sappho's barbitos.
Christ follows Dionysus,?Phallic and ambrosial?Made way for macerations;?Caliban casts out Ariel.
All things are a flowing,?Sage Heracleitus says;?But a tawdry cheapness?Shall reign throughout our days.
Even the Christian beauty?Defects--after Samothrace;?We see _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_ Decreed in the market place.
Faun's flesh is not to us,?Nor the saint's vision.?We have the press for wafer;?Franchise for circumcision.
All men, in law, are equals.?Free of Peisistratus,?We choose a knave or an eunuch?To rule over us.
O bright Apollo,?_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_, What god, man, or hero?Shall I place a tin wreath upon!
IV.
THESE fought, in any case,?and some believing, pro domo, in any case . .?Some quick to arm,?some for adventure,?some from fear of weakness,?some from fear of censure,?some for love of slaughter, in imagination,?learning later . . .
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;?Died some "pro patria, non dulce non et decor". .
walked eye-deep in hell?believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving?came home, home to a lie,?home to many deceits,?home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick?and liars in public places.
Daring as never before, wastage as never before.?Young blood and high blood,?Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;
fortitude as never before
frankness as never before,?disillusions as