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- Title
Modernism’s Medieval Imperative: The Hard Lessons of Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
- Authors
Scanlon, Larry
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley," by Ezra Pound and describes Pound in terms of medievalism as well as a modernism. It discusses the medieval themes and symbolism in the poem including the image of Troubadours, reference to the work of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri, and the juxtaposition of the characters of Mauberley and E. P., a reference to Pound himself found in the subtitle of "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley."
- Subjects
UNITED States; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); POUND, Ezra, 1885-1972; HUGH Selwyn Mauberley (Poem : Pound); MEDIEVALISM; MODERNISM (Literature); SYMBOLISM in literature; THEMES in poetry
- Publication
American Literary History, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 4, p838
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/alh/ajq050