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E.P. Ode pour l’election de son sepulchre
The first section of this long sequence introduces the reader to almost all of the themes and content of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.” The displacement of Pound’s own self into a persona, the allusions to literary history, the foreign phrases: all of these typical Poundian elements appear in this first poem.

The section’s title means “E. P. Ode for the Selection of His Tomb” (an allusion to the French poet Ronsard) and this section is, in a sense, a eulogy for “E. P.,” Pound’s aesthete alter ego. Written like most of “Hugh...

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