Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Poetry
- 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
Critical Evaluation:
The young American poet Ezra Pound had been living in Europe for more than a decade when he published his first major work, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. In London, Pound had become professionally acquainted with many of the leading artists and intellectuals, including the novelists Wyndham Lewis and Ford Madox Ford; the critic T. E. Hulme; poets T. S. Eliot, Hilda Doolittle, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher; and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Pound also met Henry James and helped the Anglo-Irish poet W. B. Yeats hone a new style for what many saw...
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