(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
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_MAUBERLEY_
CONTENTS
Part I.
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_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In a half savage country, out of date;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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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.