Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Masterplots II: Poetry Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Beauty, England or English people, Aesthetics
The Poem
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a sequence in two parts. The first part consists of thirteen poems dated 1919; the second part contains five additional poems dated 1920. The quatrain is the dominant stanza in both parts.
The title concerns the career of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, an aesthetic poet of the old school. The name, like “J. Alfred Prufrock” in T. S. Eliot’s poem, suggests a somewhat stuffy, old-fashioned, Milquetoast character (mauviette means “Milquetoast” in French). The subtitle, “Life and Contacts,” suggests affinities with the...
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